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

这项研究将探讨如何理解“健康”和“健康的自我”正在（重新）制定通过日常个人使用的在线数据及其相关的监视年轻人（16-25）。越来越多的人依靠数字技术来跟踪他们在日常生活中的“健康”（Enrique和Erickson，2020）。最近的媒体报道强调了人们对这些技术在负面自我形象和强迫性监控行为方面的影响的日益关注，特别是对年轻人的影响（Carey-Campbell，2019）。这些担忧伴随着学术研究，这些研究已经开始研究量化自我运动的性质和程度，考虑数字数据如何越来越多地融入日常实践（卢普顿，2016）。这些技术在年轻人的日常生活中实现了多种形式的监视做法：自我监视（Rich和Miah，2014年），通过自我跟踪和社交媒体平台之间的互动进行的社会监视（卢普顿，2016年）以及通过托管这些技术的公司收集数据进行的外部监视（Baracena等人，2014年）。然而，人们对年轻人如何理解这些不同形式的监视与他们使用这种技术的关系知之甚少，拟议的研究将首次对此进行详细调查。

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.