This article explores an alternative autoethnographic methodological approach, using embodied praxis and sound, for critically re-thinking contemporary subjective health practices of digital ‘self-tracking’; popularized in recent years through the rise in wearable biometric fitness devices, and online socio-cultural movements such as the Quantified Self and Strava platforms, which enable subjects to “share” their quantifiable body-data metrics. Through a performative praxis case study titled Speaking the Data (2017), the author renegotiates the “voice” of subjective agency within the quantitative data-discourse, “speaking the data” that her body is producing in “real-time” on a digital smart-bike machine. This embodied renegotiation, recorded using a sound “data-stream,” produces an alternative subjective data-set which is extended to the reader, who is invited to become “listener” in the theoretical/experiential praxis space. The sound “data-stream” thus proffers an affective expansion to our perceptions of what “body-data” can be, extending the possibilities for the digitally mediated body beyond biometric forms of quantification, through other sensorial registers of embodiment, using sound, rhythmic affect and lived experience.

本文探讨了另一种自我民族志方法论方法，使用体现的实践和声音，以批判性地重新思考数字“自我跟踪”的当代主观健康实践；近年来，随着可穿戴生物识别健身设备的兴起以及Quantified Self和Strava平台等在线社会文化运动的兴起，人们可以“分享”他们的可量化身体数据指标。通过题为“说数据”的表演性实践案例研究（2017），作者重新协商了量化数据话语中主观能动性的“声音”，在数字智能自行车机器上“实时”地“说出了她的身体正在产生的数据”。这种使用声音“数据流”记录的具体重新协商产生了另一种主观数据集，该数据集扩展到读者，邀请他们成为理论/经验实践空间中的“倾听者”。因此，声音“数据流”为我们对“身体数据”可能是什么的认知提供了情感扩展，将数字媒介身体的可能性扩展到生物计量量化形式之外，通过其他感官记录的体现，使用声音，有节奏的影响和生活经验。