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The Lived Experience of the Quantified Footballer: Understanding Digital Self-Tracking Among Women Australian Rules Footballers

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posted on 2024-07-12, 20:48 authored by Paul Gerard Bowell
This thesis explores women Australian Rules footballers' experiences of using digital self-tracking to monitor their physical outputs as athletes. Elite women footballers and their fitness coaches from the Australian Football League Women's (AFLW) participated in a qualitative digital ethnography featuring interviews, surveys and video re-enactments. The thesis found that digital self-tracking is a messy and contested activity that reinscribed onto the footballers that they are gendered subjects to the game of Australian Rules. A player centred framework of practice was developed to empower the footballers and their clubs to engage with digital self-tracking productively, while alleviating the negative outcomes.

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  • Thesis (PhD)

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Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology, 2023.

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Copyright © 2023 Paul Bowell.

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Emma Sherry

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