Our self-tracking ethnography has brought to the fore a series of insights about how these technologies and their content are experienced in everyday life, which I will be blogging about here. One of the most interesting insights to emerge from my self-tracking ethnography to date has shown how participants experience their present and imagine futures with self tracking technologies in relation to their personal data. This raises a series of key questions concerning, for instance: how self-tracking is implicated in the ways we sense and feel about our data futures (sensorially and emotionally as well as how we might verbalise this); what hopes, aspirations, and anxieties are invested in or emerge from theses experiences; and how personal data can be dispersed, disparate, or ‘broken’. I am giving a series of talks about this theme in 2016: at Goldsmith’s University, London in January,here; at the Pontifica Catolica University in Lima, Peru, in June, where my talk is online in Spanish here; and coming up next at the GIH in Stockholm in October.

This self-tracking ethnography has also been a inspiration for some of the discussions I have shared about data ethnographies, published online in the position paper Data ethnographies: personal data in an uncertain world,here.