The hidden anxieties of self-tracking
If I clock in just one more kilometre I can eat that cookie!
Many of us willingly collect data about ourselves through wearable trackers or apps with the hope that through measuring and charting our life, we can actually control it. But sometimes the very effort of trying to control it causes anxiety.
Researcher Candice Lanius talks about what she calls the "hidden anxieties" of the quantified self movement.