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Data Sense: Peoples Engagement
with Their Personal Digital Data
Deborah Lupton
News & Media Research Centre
Faculty of Arts & Design
University of Canberra
Living Digital Data research program
 How to people use and conceptualise their personal
digital data?
 What do they know of how their data are used by
others?
 How do they use other peoples data?
 What are the intersections of lively devices, lively
data and human life itself?
Perspectives
sociomaterialism
critical data
studies
cultural
geography
sensory studies
digital
anthropology
digital sociology
The 13 Ps of big data
Portentous (momentous discourse)
Perverse (ambivalence)
Personal (about our everyday lives)
Productive (generate new knowledges +
practices)
The 13 Ps of big data
Partial (tell a particular narrative, leave stuff
out)
Practices (involve diverse forms of action)
Predictive (used to make inferences)
The 13 Ps of big data
Political (reproduce power relations +
inequalities)
Provocative (scandals + controversies)
Privacy (how personal data are used/misused)
Polyvalent (contextual, many meanings)
Polymorphous (materialised in many forms)
Playful (can be fun/pleasurable)
The vitality of digital devices
lively
devices
mobile
ubiquitous
companions
co-
habitants
embodied
The vitality of digital data
lively
data
data about
life
social lives
of data
data
impacts
on life
data
livelihoods
Data and emotion
data
visceralisation
data
pleasure
data
frustration
data
betrayal
data
boredom
data
mystery
data fear
Data sense
data
sense
digital
sensors
human
senses
sense-
making
Cycling Data Assemblages project
human
bicycle
digital
device
digital data
human
senses
emotion
space/place
Data collection for Cycling Data
Assemblages Project
1. Interview 1 (talk to participant about their
self-tracking and cycling practices)
2. Enactment of participant getting ready for a
ride and finishing a ride
3. Go Pro footage of ride
4. Interview 2 (talk to participant about the Go
Pro footage and the self-tracked data they
collected on their ride)
Participant shows how he gets ready for a ride
Participant shows and talks about his
cycling data on his phone app
Participant shows and talks about his
cycling data on his computer screen
Preliminary findings
Self-tracked data 
 offer objective measures over subjective embodied
sensations
 documented proof that a ride took place and how
long and fast it was
 can monitor changes in fitness over time
 can be social
 can tell you if you are struggling or feeling good
 need to be assessed against previous experiences
Preliminary findings
Self-tracked data 
 can be motivating  external validation
 knowing speed makes me work harder
 distance travelled gives a sense of achievement
 seeing heart rate tells me how much work Im doing
 can only tell you so much about a ride (cant access
the internal battles or incorporate traffic or weather
conditions or impact of different bikes)
Preliminary findings
 Self-tracked data 
 value of data can mean less caution about data
privacy
 makes you more aware of parts of the ride (e.g. Strava
segments)
 assists riding technique (noticing speed, anticipating
gear changes)
 can change the way you feel about your body
 helps explain why you felt a certain way about a ride
 reminds you of how you felt during the ride

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Data Sense: People's Engagement with Their Personal Digital Data

  • 1. Data Sense: Peoples Engagement with Their Personal Digital Data Deborah Lupton News & Media Research Centre Faculty of Arts & Design University of Canberra
  • 2. Living Digital Data research program How to people use and conceptualise their personal digital data? What do they know of how their data are used by others? How do they use other peoples data? What are the intersections of lively devices, lively data and human life itself?
  • 4. The 13 Ps of big data Portentous (momentous discourse) Perverse (ambivalence) Personal (about our everyday lives) Productive (generate new knowledges + practices)
  • 5. The 13 Ps of big data Partial (tell a particular narrative, leave stuff out) Practices (involve diverse forms of action) Predictive (used to make inferences)
  • 6. The 13 Ps of big data Political (reproduce power relations + inequalities) Provocative (scandals + controversies) Privacy (how personal data are used/misused) Polyvalent (contextual, many meanings) Polymorphous (materialised in many forms) Playful (can be fun/pleasurable)
  • 7. The vitality of digital devices lively devices mobile ubiquitous companions co- habitants embodied
  • 8. The vitality of digital data lively data data about life social lives of data data impacts on life data livelihoods
  • 11. Cycling Data Assemblages project human bicycle digital device digital data human senses emotion space/place
  • 12. Data collection for Cycling Data Assemblages Project 1. Interview 1 (talk to participant about their self-tracking and cycling practices) 2. Enactment of participant getting ready for a ride and finishing a ride 3. Go Pro footage of ride 4. Interview 2 (talk to participant about the Go Pro footage and the self-tracked data they collected on their ride)
  • 13. Participant shows how he gets ready for a ride
  • 14. Participant shows and talks about his cycling data on his phone app
  • 15. Participant shows and talks about his cycling data on his computer screen
  • 16. Preliminary findings Self-tracked data offer objective measures over subjective embodied sensations documented proof that a ride took place and how long and fast it was can monitor changes in fitness over time can be social can tell you if you are struggling or feeling good need to be assessed against previous experiences
  • 17. Preliminary findings Self-tracked data can be motivating external validation knowing speed makes me work harder distance travelled gives a sense of achievement seeing heart rate tells me how much work Im doing can only tell you so much about a ride (cant access the internal battles or incorporate traffic or weather conditions or impact of different bikes)
  • 18. Preliminary findings Self-tracked data value of data can mean less caution about data privacy makes you more aware of parts of the ride (e.g. Strava segments) assists riding technique (noticing speed, anticipating gear changes) can change the way you feel about your body helps explain why you felt a certain way about a ride reminds you of how you felt during the ride