PI: Amanda Karlsson
With the intensive growth of self-tracking technologies to measure various aspects of our health an increasing number of women embrace apps for tracking their female cycle. While constructing new mediated relationships with their menstruating bodies and getting access to a shame-free scope for self-exploration and reassurance, these women also produce valuable data for the tech industry and in that sense become prosumers. Questions of privacy and data ownership surface: who profits from the data and owns the data?
Based on interviews with Danish women using period-trackers in their everyday life my PhD project aims at exploring these intersections of privacy, datafied bodies and menstrual stigma.
