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Tutorial Week 3 - Coggle Diagram
Tutorial Week 3
Self Tracking
Tracking health, diet, steps, sleep
Sharing this information can also be a form of self tracking
Beneficial to help you track how close you are to goals
Usually done by smartphone
For and against
Against
Can become obsessive
Can track location
Can result in toxic behaviours with those around you
Can change your mental state and bring it down.
Can lose focus of the bigger picture when looking from week to week.
Can create stalkers if you can see their location.
Over reliant on the data without thinking about how you feel personally.
For
Can help you track how close you are to goals.
Can create competition when shared with others.
Can hold yourself accountable.
Can track progress.
Can be helpful for health issues.
Can track dangerous trends in your health
Forms good habits
Definition: The action of tracking aspects and characteristics of your life.
Tattoos and Contemporary culture
What is the status of tattoos in 2021
More common than they used to be
More open discussion about tattoos in workplaces
Job stoppers
Hand, neck, face
Not as worried about tattoos in workplaces
Tattoos were more for military or people who engage in extracurricular activities
Branding association
Problem used to be visibility
Moved from symbolism to "I just loved it!"
Amateurism rather than a true art form
More accessible, can be bought online.
Connected to youthfulness, people are more concerned with the way they look now than when they are in their 90's.
Desire in risk
Culturally specific references
Tattoos as life narration
Materialism providing meaning.
Moving in directions of possibility.
Memories associated with tattoos.
All fits within identity, doesn't matter if it has meaning.
Positioning can mean communicating with yourself or someone else.