Running with Data: from assumed rationalities to everyday data literacies

Emergent sports technologies, such as wearable trackers and other smart devices, have posed runners with a data-focused epistemic challenge: How to evaluate the new forms of technological information? In this presentation, the postdoctoral researcher Lauri Palsa (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) explores the use of sports technologies by recreational runners and their everyday data literacies. Instead of the rational “homo economicus” that pursues to maximise the benefits of technology, the data collected from over a thousand runners emphasises the diversity, everydayness and situationality of data literacies.

More information

• Research article by Lauri Palsa and Pekka Mertala: “Contextualizing Everyday Data Literacies: The Case of Recreational Runners” (2023)
• Lauri Palsa (ORCID)
• Pekka Mertala (ORCID)

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