Abstract Proactive self-tracking is a proliferating digital media practice that involves gathering data about the body and self outside clinical healthcare setting. Various studies have noted technologies affect people's everyday modes of thought action stick to their lifeworlds because these seek promote “improved” behaviour. We investigate how specific devices interfaces involved in attract p...

This paper reports on a study of sleep amongst men and women who are living in residential rehabilitation centres in the UK and who are receiving support for their recovery from addiction to alcohol and other forms of substance use. Conceptually and methodologically, the paper draws on the work of the French sociologist Lefebvre and, in particular, his rhythmanalysis. We argue that this approac...

ideas, the analyst of rhythmic phenomena seeks to peel off the layers of experience that at times are implicit or glossed over by the abstractions of colloquial expressions. The adjectives we use to describe a situation can be unpicked as temporal-spatial relationships that subsist the polyrhythmic bundle. What is the ‘busyness’ of a street if it is not a heterogeneous bundle of rhythms, of car...


 Change is a constant condition of everyday life that we experience and transition through while often maintaining sense stability continuity. But inevitably come across disruptive changes call into question the meanings take for granted thereby rupture as know it. How do those affect our rhythms living? make meaning subsequently act upon them? individual, social, environmental reciprocal...

Studies of hyperlocal journalism and news have not adequately taken into account audience members’ everyday experiences their own communities the ways in which audiences’ information environments are integrated with social affective community environments. In this focus group study (six groups, 5–7 participants/group, total N = 38) neighbourhoods Rivertown, Sweden (a mid-sized Swedish municipal...