Showing progress: Defining self-tracking as an aesthetic audio-visual genre
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Conjunctions : transdisciplinary journal of cultural participation |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
Publication status | Published - 4 Jul 2022 |
Links
- https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/tjcp-2022-0004
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