Smartwatches, Bodies, and Landscapes

Katsogridakis, Georgios and Chaston, Millie (2024) Smartwatches, Bodies, and Landscapes. In: Routledge Handbook of Mobile Technology, Social Media and the Outdoors. Taylor and Francis, pp. 101-111. ISBN 9781003367536 (In Press)

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Abstract

The body is the means by which all experience is made possible; it is the pivot that the world turns its face towards. But what does it mean to have a body at a time when digital technology has become so profoundly entangled with our ways of being? This is a crucial question to address in the context of outdoor education – a discipline whose pedagogical foundations revolve around experiential learning. In this chapter, the authors aim to shed some light on the issue by focusing on the use of data-tracking smartwatches during an educational expedition in the Welsh mountains. In doing so, they highlight how the use of this technology can affect one’s embodied experience of the self and surrounding environment, the relation between the two, and, crucially, the opportunities and pitfalls this presents from an educational standpoint.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Education, Environment and Sustainability, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sports and Leisure
Depositing User:	Ms Raisa Burton
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2025 11:03
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2025 11:03
URI:	https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17929

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