On Self-Tracking as Surveillance Practice

Anna Heitger, BA, born 1992 in Washington, D.C., raised in Austria, studying Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna since 2012, currently in the Master program. I aim to write from the intersection of Anthropology and STS, with theoretical frameworks of practice theory, feminist and posthuman theories, and a special interest in affectivity and the role of emotions and affects in the practices we engage in. Investigating self-tracking technologies allows me to bring together these fields of interests within a particular kind of assemblage of human body and technological device.