Negotiating Family Tracking

Maja Sonne Damkjær; Ask Risom Bøge; Anders Albrechtslund

Abstract

This presentation explores the question: What motivates the use of tracking technologies in families, and how does the use transform the relations between parent and child? The purpose is to investigate why tracking technologies are used in families and how these technologies potentially change the relation between parents and children. The use of tracking technologies in families implicate negotiations about the boundaries of trust and intimacy in parent-child relations which can lead to strategies of resistance or modification (Fotel and Thomsen, 2004; Rooney, 2010; Steeves and Jones, 2010). In the presentation, we report from a qualitative study that focuses on intergenerational relations. The study draws on empirical data from workshops with Danish families as well as individual and group interviews. We aim to gain insights about the sharing habits and negotiations in intimate family relations, particularly with regards to location sharing, social media activity and cultural consumption. Furthermore, we aim to use our study to develop postpanoptic surveillance theory (Lyon, 2006) in a more dynamic and relational direction by underscoring the events that lead to active tracking and the co- construction (Oudshoorn & Pinch, 2003) of interpersonal surveillance.

Original language	English
Publication date	2017
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	Metric culture: The quantified self and beyond - Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Buildings 1630-1632, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Duration: 7 Jun 2017 → 9 Jun 2017

Conference

Conference	Metric culture
Location	Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Buildings 1630-1632, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Period	07/06/2017 → 09/06/2017

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ChIP: Childhood, Intimacy and Surveillance Practices
Albrechtslund, A. (Project manager), Bøge, A. R. (Participant), Sonne Damkjær, M. (Participant), Southerton, C. V. (Participant), Lauritsen, P. (Project manager), Fruekilde, E. K. (Participant) & Widmer, S. (Participant)
AUs Forskningsfond
01/11/2016 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research

Metric culture
Damkjaer, M. S. (Speaker)
7 Jun 2017 → 9 Jun 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference

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