Healthy lifestyles or dangerous competition? Self-tracking and the geographies of surveillance in the lives of young people

这项研究将研究如何通过日常个人使用在线数据及其对年轻人(16-25岁)的相关监测来(重新)形成对“健康”和“健康自我”的理解。越来越多的人依靠数字技术来跟踪他们日常生活中的“健康”(Enrique和Erickson，2020)。最近的媒体报道强调了对这些技术对负面自我形象和强迫性监控做法的影响的日益关注，特别是对年轻人(Carey-Campbell，2019年)。伴随着这样的担忧，学术研究已经开始研究量化自我运动的性质和程度，这些研究考虑了数字数据如何越来越多地融入日常实践中(Lupton，2016)。这些技术使年轻人日常生活中的监督实践具有多种形式：自我监督(Rich和Miah，2014)，通过自我跟踪和社交媒体平台之间的互动进行社会监督(Lupton，2016)，以及通过托管这些技术的公司收集数据进行外部监督(Baracena等人，2014)。然而，对于年轻人如何理解这些与他们使用这种技术有关的不同形式的监控，目前还知之甚少，拟议中的研究将提供这方面的第一次详细调查。

This research will examine how understandings of 'health' and the 'healthy self' are being (re)formulated through the everyday personal use of online data and its associated surveillance for young people (16-25). Increasing numbers of people rely on digital technologies to track their 'health' in their everyday life (Enrique and Erickson, 2020). Recent media reports have highlighted growing concern about the implications of these technologies in relation to negative self-image and obsessive monitoring practices particularly for young people (Carey-Campbell, 2019). Such concerns are accompanied by academic research which has started to examine the nature and the extent of the quantified-self movement, which considers how numeric data is increasingly becoming enfolded in everyday practices (Lupton, 2016). Such technologies enable multiple forms of surveillance practices in young people's everyday lives: self-surveillance (Rich and Miah, 2014), social surveillance through the interaction between self-tracking and social media platforms (Lupton, 2016) and external surveillance through data gathering by companies hosting these technologies (Baracena et al, 2014). There is, however, little understanding of how young people understand these different forms of surveillance in relation to their uses of such technology and the proposed research will offer the first detailed investigation of this.