Inter/Sections 2021


Bodies/technologies

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Untitled, 2015

Workbook 8. 2016

Sharon, T. and Zandbergen, D. (2017) ‘From data fetishism to quan-
tifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data’,

New Media & Society. SAGE Publications, 19(11), pp. 1695–1709. doi:
10.1177/1461444816636090.

Data in these types of self-tracking practices are a new element in an aesthetic and continuous process of identity construction. It is not just used to learn about oneself but also to construct stories about oneself.

(Sharon and Zandbergen, 2017)

Almeida, T. et al. (2016) ‘On Looking at the Vagina through Labella’, in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. San Jose, California, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (CHI ’16), pp. 1810–1821. doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858119.

Berglund Scherwitzl, E. et al. (2016) ‘Fertility awareness-based mobile application for contraception’, The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 21(3), pp. 234–241. doi: 10.3109/13625187.2016.1154143.

Freis, A. et al. (2018) ‘Plausibility of Menstrual Cycle Apps Claiming to Support Conception’, Frontiers in Public Health, 6. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00098.

Garrett, M. (2018) ‘Unlocking Proprietoral Systems for Artistic Practice’, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 7(1), pp. 100–112. doi: 10.7146/aprja.v7i1.115068.

Hester, H. (2018) Xenofeminism. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA: Polity Press (Theory redux).

Hughes, B. (2018) ‘Challenging Menstrual Norms in Online Medical Advice: Deconstructing Stigma through Entangled Art Practice’, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics. Lectito Journals, 2(2). doi: 10.20897/femenc/3883.

Karlsson, A. (2019) ‘A Room of One’s Own?’, Nordicom Review; Gothenburg, 40(s1), pp. 111–123. doi: http://dx.doi.org.gold.idm.oclc.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0017.

Kressbach, M. (2019) ‘Period Hacks: Menstruating in the Big Data Paradigm’, Television & New Media. SAGE Publications, p. 1527476419886389. doi: 10.1177/1527476419886389.

Law, J. (2019)’Material Semiotics’ ‘Law2019MaterialSemiotics.pdf’ (2019). Available at: http://www.heterogeneities.net/publications/Law2019MaterialSemiotics.pdf (Accessed: 1 May 2020).

Lupton, D. (2015) ‘Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps’, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 17(4), pp. 440–453. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2014.920528.

Manica, D. T. et al. (2017) ‘(In)visible Blood: menstrual performances and body art’, Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology. Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA), 14(1). doi: 10.1590/1809-43412017v14n1p124.

Mort, M. and Roberts, C. (2019) Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensing. Policy Press.

Pink, S. et al. (eds) (2016) Digital ethnography: principles and practice. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Plows, A. and Boddington, P. (2006) ‘Troubles with biocitizenship?’, Genomics, Society and Policy, 2(3), p. 115. doi: 10.1186/1746-5354-2-3-115.

Sharon, T. and Zandbergen, D. (2017) ‘From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data’, New Media & Society. SAGE Publications, 19(11), pp. 1695–1709. doi: 10.1177/1461444816636090.

Søndergaard, M. L. J. (2017) ‘Intimate Design: Designing Intimacy As a Critical-Feminist Practice’, in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’17. the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM Press, pp. 320–325. doi: 10.1145/3027063.3027138.

Søndergaard, M. L. J. and Hansen, L. K. (2016) ‘PeriodShare: A Bloody Design Fiction’, in Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Gothenburg, Sweden: Association for Computing Machinery (NordiCHI ’16), pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1145/2971485.2996748.

Thomas, S. L., Nafus, D. and Sherman, J. (2018) ‘Algorithms as fetish: Faith and possibility in algorithmic work’, Big Data & Society. SAGE Publications Ltd, 5(1), p. 2053951717751552. doi: 10.1177/2053951717751552.

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The apps themselves have also come under criticism for assuming that users are straight, cis gendered and able bodied (Lupton, 2015; Søndergaard, 2017; Kressbach, 2019; Mort and Roberts, 2019), both undermining their own rhetoric of empowerment and the accuracy of their algorithms by not taking into account the experiences of some menstruators.

Finally, some researchers have identified that, more so than the app itself, biosensing practitioners find that real insights and useful advice come from the community of users (Sharon and Zandbergen, 2017; Thomas, Nafus and Sherman, 2018; Mort and Roberts, 2019). When using menstrual apps our own data is often little more than ‘a speck in the larger sea of data’ (Mort and Roberts, 2019) and therefore an individual user is largely disconnected from the rest of the user base.

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