You are viewing a read-only archive of the Blogs.Harvard network. Learn more.

Sara Watson on Living with Data: Stories that Make Data More Personal

April 30th, 2014

We are becoming data. Between our mobile phones, browser history, wearable sensors, and connected devices in our homes, there’s more data about us than ever before. So how are we learning to live with all this data?

Inspired by her ethnographic interview work with members of the quantified self community, Berkman fellow Sara M. Watson discusses these larger systemic shifts through personal narratives that reveal how we find clues, investigate, and reverse engineer what’s going on with our data.


Also in ogg for download

More info on this event here.

Be Sociable, Share!

Entry Filed under: video

Leave a Comment

Required

Required, hidden

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>