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Self-tracking, physical activity and Indigenous Australian women: What’s the fit?
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Maxwell, H and O'Shea, M and Stronach, M, Self-tracking, physical activity and Indigenous Australian women: What's the fit?, 2019 Sporting Traditions Conference, 1-4 July, Bathurst, NSW (2019) [Conference Extract]
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Abstract
Drawing on a strengths-based empowerment approach and the Indigenous tradition of ‘yarning’, this research explores how digital health technologies contribute to Indigenous women’s levels of physical activity (PA). While people have long regulated their bodies, the use of digital technologies to self-track one’s bodily states, processes and activities is expanding. Thus the research contributes to a little understood area of sport and diversity practices. Participants were eight Indigenous Australian women from the Tranby Indigenous College in Sydney, from July to October 2018. Each participant decided how best to achieve her goals with the assistance of the health tracker. They diarised their activity types, amounts, experiences and thoughts. Key findings include intersections between the use of digital health trackers and Indigenous women’s enhanced health literacy, increased motivation for activity and lifestyle choices. Discussions around the quantitative self, governance by micro-nudge and health trackers increasing power and agency arose from the data.
Item Details
Item Type: | Conference Extract |
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Keywords: | digital health tracker, physical activity, Indigenous health |
Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Research Group: | Commercial services |
Research Field: | Sport and leisure management |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Evaluation of health and support services |
Objective Field: | Health inequalities |
UTAS Author: | Maxwell, H (Dr Hazel Maxwell) |
ID Code: | 133926 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Deposited By: | Health Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2019-07-16 |
Last Modified: | 2019-07-16 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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