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Mary Fraser Berndtsson
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Mary Fraser Berndtsson

Doctoral student

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Mary Fraser Berndtsson
Contact details
  • Email: mary [dot] fraser_berndtsson [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se
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  • Sociology
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Doctoral student

Sociology

Main research areas

  • Sociology of embodiment and the body
  • STS/science and technology use in everyday life
  • The Quantified Self

 

Current research and teaching

The wearable lifestyle tracker was one of the 2014 Christmas “gifts of the year”. Nowadays, you can see devices from Fitbit, Garmin, Jawbone, etc. being worn all over town. Yet, what do these devices actually do? My dissertation project is an ethnographic investigation of how people use self-tracking and documenting technologies in their efforts to improve their lifestyles.  My teaching is mainly in social psychology and qualitative methods.

Mary Fraser Berndtsson studies how people use self-tracking technologies to make lifestyle changes.

27 Mar 2023