Natalie Ann Hendry is Senior Lecturer in youth wellbeing in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. Natalie’s research investigates the relationships between education, health and media in young adults’ lives.Ingrid Richardson is Professor of Digital Media at RMIT University, Australia. She has published on a wide range of topics, including technoscience, virtual and augmented reality, games and mobile media, social media and participatory network cultures and the phenomenology of media practices.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital data, research ethos and haunting; Natalie Ann Hendry and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 2. Reframing data excess; Rowan Wilken Chapter 3. Unanticipated excess: Inescapable moments and uneasy feelings; Ben Lyall, Josie Reade, and Claire Moran Chapter 4. The digital mess of a digital ethnography; Clare Southerton Chapter 5. ‘Digital hoarding’ and embracing data excess in digital cultures research; Natalie Ann Hendry Chapter 6. The epistemic culture of data minimalism: Conducting an ethnography of travel influencers; Christian S. Ritter Chapter 7. Embodied excess: Interpreting haptic mobile media practices; Jess Hardley and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 8. Re-engaging with excess data: Newbie researchers, Tumblr, and the evolving research event; Navid Sabet Chapter 9. Museums, smart cities and big data: How can we transform data excess into data intelligence?; Natalia Grincheva Chapter 10. Evaluation, digital data and excess(es) in health interventions; Benjamin Hanckel

Natalie Ann Hendry is Senior Lecturer in youth wellbeing in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. Natalie’s research investigates the relationships between education, health and media in young adults’ lives.Ingrid Richardson is Professor of Digital Media at RMIT University, Australia. She has published on a wide range of topics, including technoscience, virtual and augmented reality, games and mobile media, social media and participatory network cultures and the phenomenology of media practices.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital data, research ethos and haunting; Natalie Ann Hendry and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 2. Reframing data excess; Rowan Wilken Chapter 3. Unanticipated excess: Inescapable moments and uneasy feelings; Ben Lyall, Josie Reade, and Claire Moran Chapter 4. The digital mess of a digital ethnography; Clare Southerton Chapter 5. ‘Digital hoarding’ and embracing data excess in digital cultures research; Natalie Ann Hendry Chapter 6. The epistemic culture of data minimalism: Conducting an ethnography of travel influencers; Christian S. Ritter Chapter 7. Embodied excess: Interpreting haptic mobile media practices; Jess Hardley and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 8. Re-engaging with excess data: Newbie researchers, Tumblr, and the evolving research event; Navid Sabet Chapter 9. Museums, smart cities and big data: How can we transform data excess into data intelligence?; Natalia Grincheva Chapter 10. Evaluation, digital data and excess(es) in health interventions; Benjamin Hanckel

Natalie Ann Hendry is Senior Lecturer in youth wellbeing in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. Natalie’s research investigates the relationships between education, health and media in young adults’ lives.Ingrid Richardson is Professor of Digital Media at RMIT University, Australia. She has published on a wide range of topics, including technoscience, virtual and augmented reality, games and mobile media, social media and participatory network cultures and the phenomenology of media practices.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital data, research ethos and haunting; Natalie Ann Hendry and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 2. Reframing data excess; Rowan Wilken Chapter 3. Unanticipated excess: Inescapable moments and uneasy feelings; Ben Lyall, Josie Reade, and Claire Moran Chapter 4. The digital mess of a digital ethnography; Clare Southerton Chapter 5. ‘Digital hoarding’ and embracing data excess in digital cultures research; Natalie Ann Hendry Chapter 6. The epistemic culture of data minimalism: Conducting an ethnography of travel influencers; Christian S. Ritter Chapter 7. Embodied excess: Interpreting haptic mobile media practices; Jess Hardley and Ingrid Richardson Chapter 8. Re-engaging with excess data: Newbie researchers, Tumblr, and the evolving research event; Navid Sabet Chapter 9. Museums, smart cities and big data: How can we transform data excess into data intelligence?; Natalia Grincheva Chapter 10. Evaluation, digital data and excess(es) in health interventions; Benjamin Hanckel