Materializing: Period-tracking with apps and the (re)constitution of menstrual cycles.
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The present article explores how cycles are brought into being through the practices and affordances involved in period-tracking with apps. Based on thirteen in-depth semi-structured interviews with period-tracking app users living in the Netherlands, it expands on literature discussing the relationship between embodiment, apps, and quantification. The contributions of this article are two-fold. Theoretically, it argues for the use of Karen Barad’s notion of apparatus to understand how bodies are (re)configured in relation to self-tracking technologies (1998). Empirically, it exposes how bodies emerge in localized period-tracking practices, within material-semiotic arrangements that both resist and reproduce cultural ideals about menstruating bodies. Period-tracking with apps, this study finds, brings the body’s interior processes into being in a “systematic” way, (re)configuring the cycle as either a series of phases or an interval with a certain (normative) duration. In all cases, periodtracking with apps becomes a means for users to access their internal body and to materialize the invisible processes of the cycle in ways that can be acted upon.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | MedieKultur |
Vol/bind | 37 |
Udgave nummer | 71 |
Sider (fra-til) | 54-72 |
Antal sider | 19 |
ISSN | 1901-9726 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2021 |
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