Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Making Emotions Count: The Self-Tracking of Feelings (Extended Abstract)

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Lifelogging

Abstract

The paper suggests conceiving of self-tracking – especially self-tracking with a focus on emotional phenomena – as specific practice of modern subjects examining themselves (Selbstthematisierung). It presents an analytic reconstruction of various current emotion tracking techniques and positions the phenomenon within latest analyses on the development of the social regulation of feelings by focusing on the implicit concepts of emotion underpinning those tracking techniques. The self-tracking of feelings – similar to other contemporary programs of emotion management (e.g. emotional intelligence) – contributes to generating a whole new understanding of emotions as phenomena that can be mentally chosen, formed, optimized and used for self knowledge, self fulfillment and personal success.

The extended abstract at hand relies on Pritz, S.M. (2016). Mood Tracking. Zur digitalen Selbstvermessung der Gefühle. In S. Selke (Ed.), Lifelogging. Digitale Selbstvermessung und Lebensprotokollierung zwischen disruptiver Technologie und kulturellem Wandel. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Baumeler, C. (2010). Organizational Regimes of Emotional Conduct. In B. Sieben, & Å Wettergren (Eds.), Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions (pp. 272- 292). Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Becker, P. (2009). What Makes us Modern(s)? The Place of Emotions in Contemporary Society. In D. Hopkins, J. Kleres, H. Flam, & H. Kuzmics (Eds.), Theorizing Emotions. Sociological Explorations and Applications (pp. 195-220). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bohn, C., & Hahn, A. (1999). Selbstbeschreibung und Selbstthematisierung. Facetten der Identität in der modernen Gesellschaft. In H. Willems, & A. Hahn (Eds.), Identität und Moderne (pp. 33-61). Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bröckling, U., Krasmann, S., & Lemke, T. (2000). Gouvernementalität der Gegenwart. Studien zur Ökonomisierung des Sozialen. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Burchill, G., Gordon, C., & Miller, P. (1991). The Foucault Effect. Studies in Governmentality. Studies in governmentality with two lectures by and an inteview with Michel Foucault. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

    Google Scholar 

  • Burkart, G. (2006). Die Ausweitung der Bekenntniskultur – neue Formen der Selbstthematisierung? Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dean, M. (2010). Governmentality. Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fineman, S. (2000). Commodifying the Emotionally Intelligent. In S. Fineman (Ed.), Emotion in Organizations (pp. 101-114). London: Sage, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Fineman, S. (2003). Understanding Emotion at Work. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fineman, S. (2004). Getting the Measure of Emotion—And the Cautionary Tale of Emotional Intelligence. Human Relations, 57(6), 719-740. doi:10.1177/0018726704044953.

    Google Scholar 

  • Flam, H. (1990). Emotional Man. Corporate Actors as Emotion-motivated Emotion Managers. International Sociology, 5(2), 225-234. doi:10.1177/026858090005002007.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foucault, M. (1988). Technologies of the Self. In M. H. Luther, G. Huck, & H. H. Patrick (Eds.), Technologies of the Self—a Seminar with Michel Foucault (pp. 16-49). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence. Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. New York: Bantam Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goleman, D. (1998). Working with Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hahn, A. (1982). Zur Soziologie der Beichte und anderer Formen institutionalisierter Bekenntnisse. Selbstthematisierung und Zivilisationsprozess. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 34, 407-434.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hahn, A. (1987). Identität und Selbstthematisierung. In A. Hahn, & V. Kapp (Eds.), Selbstthematisierung und Selbstzeugnis. Bekenntnis und Geständnis (pp. 9-24). Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hahn, A. (2000). Konstruktionen des Selbst, der Welt und der Geschichte. Aufsätze zur Kultursoziologie. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The Managed Heart. The Commercialization of Human Feelings. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hochschild, A. R. (1998). The Sociology of Emotions as a Way of Seeing. In G. Bendelow, & S. J. Williams (Eds.), Emotions in Social Life. Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues (pp. 3-15). London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Illouz, E. (1997). Consuming the Romantic Utopia. Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Illouz, E. (2007). Cold Intimacies. The Making of Emotional Capitalism. Oxford: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Illouz, E. (2008a). Emotional Capital, Therapeutic Language and the Habitus of “The New Man”. In N. C. Karafyllis, & G. Ulshöfer (Eds.), Sexualized Brains. Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective (pp. 151-178) Cambridge: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Illouz, E. (2008b). Saving the Modern Soul. Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self- Help. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Isin, E. (2004). The Neurotic Citizen. Citizenship Studies, 8(3), 217-235. doi:10.1080/1362102042000256970.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krell, G., & Weiskopf, R. (2006). Die Anordnung der Leidenschaften. Wien: Passagen- Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Latour, B. (1999). Pandora’s Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lemke, T. (1997). Eine Kritik der politischen Vernunft. Foucaults Analyse der modernen Gouvernementalität. Berlin: Argument Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lemke, T. (2000). Neoliberalismus. Staat und Selbsttechnologien. Ein kritischer Überblick über die Governmentality Studies. Politische Vierteljahrsschrift, 41(1), 31-47. doi:10.1007/s11615-000-0003-8.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maffesoli, M. (1995). The Time of Tribes. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maffesoli, M. (1996). Ordinary Knowledge. Oxford: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meŝtrović, S. (1997). Postemotional Society. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neckel, S. (2005). Emotion by Design. Das Selbstmanagement der Gefühle als kulturelles Programm. Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 15(3), 419-430. doi:10.1007/s11609-005-0208-1.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neckel, S. (2014). Emotionale Reflexivität – Paradoxien der Emotionalisierung. In T. Fehmel, S. Lessenich, & J. Preunkert (Eds.), Systemzwang und Akteurswissen. Theorie und Empirie von Autonomiegewinnen (pp. 117-132). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pritz, S. M. (2012). Emotionale Intelligenz in der Schönen, neuen Welt? Ein erfolgreiches Konzept auf dem Prüfstand. In E. Mixa, & P. Vogl (Eds.), E-Motions. Transformationsprozesse in der Gegenwartskultur (pp. 104-114). Wien: Turia+Kant.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rose, N. S. (1998). Inventing Our Selves. Psychology, Power and Personhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rose, N. S. (1999a). Governing the Soul. The Shaping of the Private Self. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rose, N. S. (1999b). Powers of Freedom. Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schroer, M. (2006). Selbstthematisierung. Von der (Er-)Findung des Selbst und der Suche nach Aufmerksamkeit. In G. Burkart (Ed.), Die Ausweitung der Bekenntniskultur – neue Formen der Selbstthematisierung? (pp. 41-72). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sieben, B. (2001). Emotionale Intelligenz – Golemans Erfolgskonstrukt auf dem Prüfstand. In G. Schreyögg, & J. Sydow (Eds.), Emotionen und Management (pp. 135-170). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sieben, B. (2007). Management und Emotionen. Analyse einer ambivalenten Verknüpfung. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

    Google Scholar 

  • Villa, P.-I. (2012). Die Vermessung des Selbst. Einsicht in die Logik zeitgenössischer Körperarbeit. Aviso. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Kunst in Bayern, 3, 14-19.

    Google Scholar 

  • Whitson, J. R. (2013). Gaming the Quantified Self. Surveillance and Society, 11(1/2), 163- 176.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolf, G. (2010, Apr 28). The Data-Driven Life. New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02self-measurement-t.html?pagewanted=all. Accessed 08 Jan 2015.

  • Wouters, C. (1999). Informalisierung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

    Sarah Miriam Pritz

Authors
  1. Sarah Miriam Pritz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Sarah Miriam Pritz .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Hochschule Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Germany

    Stefan Selke

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Pritz, S.M. (2016). Making Emotions Count: The Self-Tracking of Feelings (Extended Abstract). In: Selke, S. (eds) Lifelogging. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1_9

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1_9

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer VS, Wiesbaden

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-658-13136-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-658-13137-1

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation