Showing progress: Defining self-tracking as an aesthetic audio-visual genre
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Showing progress : Defining self-tracking as an aesthetic audio-visual genre. / Raun, Tobias; Nebeling Petersen, Michael.
In: Conjunctions : transdisciplinary journal of cultural participation, Vol. 9, No. 1, 04.07.2022, p. 1-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Showing progress
T2 - Defining self-tracking as an aesthetic audio-visual genre
AU - Raun, Tobias
AU - Nebeling Petersen, Michael
PY - 2022/7/4
Y1 - 2022/7/4
N2 - This article characterises the growing phenomenon of men creating and sharing videos of themselves trying out medical treatments to avoid baldness and/or gain more substantial beard-growth. We analyse a sample of amateur YouTube-videos of men trying, evaluating and discussing the two most popular products: Minoxidil (to increase beard growth), and Finasteride (to increase hair growth and/or slow down balding processes). We situate these videos within self-tracking as a field of study, and we define and analyse the videos as a particular genre of self-tracking with specific characteristics, labelling them as either a momental or longitudinal video. It is our claim that these defining characteristics are significant for this particular kind of videos, tracking the decline and/or growth of hair, but that the outlined core characteristics are also applicable to other (and potentially all) forms of videos preoccupied with tracking transformation.
AB - This article characterises the growing phenomenon of men creating and sharing videos of themselves trying out medical treatments to avoid baldness and/or gain more substantial beard-growth. We analyse a sample of amateur YouTube-videos of men trying, evaluating and discussing the two most popular products: Minoxidil (to increase beard growth), and Finasteride (to increase hair growth and/or slow down balding processes). We situate these videos within self-tracking as a field of study, and we define and analyse the videos as a particular genre of self-tracking with specific characteristics, labelling them as either a momental or longitudinal video. It is our claim that these defining characteristics are significant for this particular kind of videos, tracking the decline and/or growth of hair, but that the outlined core characteristics are also applicable to other (and potentially all) forms of videos preoccupied with tracking transformation.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Conjunctions : transdisciplinary journal of cultural participation
JF - Conjunctions : transdisciplinary journal of cultural participation
SN - 2246-3755
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 279108191