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Self-evaluative tools not only draw on data and activities specific to social media platforms, they also allow for new modes of organising these activities, data and temporalities. The role of numbers is understood in relation to dynamics of mediation and medium-specificity (Rogers 2009). The framing dynamics are explored by focusing on the production of numbers as enumerated entities (Verran 2010), drawing attention to how numbers are never simply abstractions, but construct relations and temporalities, most particularly through algorithmic rankings and dynamics of ordinality. The primary focus lies on the performative capacities of such tools, as suggested in the work of Power, Strathern and Espeland, showing that the measurements they create are not designed to capture a separate reality, but function as framing devices, inviting some types of awareness, and action while ruling out others. This lack has lead to the emergence of numerous self-evaluation tools, offering a re-organisation of data, activities and temporalities. While platforms focus on creating climates of immediacy and now-ness, they offer little access the past, to retrospectively search and make sense of one’s data. This paper focuses on the increasing prevalence of devices for self-evaluation in the context of social media, that is tools that allow users to make sense of the activities and data they produce in social media platforms. Self-management is particularly relevant if we take into account the existence of a ‘chronic disease paradigm’ associated with asthma that, to some extent, allows the individual control and management of this disease and results from different forms of combine medical knowledge with the personal experiences of the asthma. This component of fieldwork allowed us to identify and characterize: in detail, (i) what counts as health knowledge (ii) what are the different patterns of description and explanation (iii) different experiences of living with the condition and the engagements with health care services and health professionals and (iv) the different forms and strategies for managing the disease. This presentation aims at discussing the preliminary findings drawn from narrative interview analysis conducted in Portugal – Hospital São João of Porto, with patients of the Immunoallergology service. The project "Evaluating the State of Public Knowledge on Health and Health Information in Portugal” within the Harvard Medical School-Portugal Program on Translational Research and Health Information, funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, seeks to explore new approaches to the experience of asthma patients as they are articulated in narratives, through an adaptation of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI) schedule as its main tool. Narratives of experience provide unique materials for exploring the ways in which subjects make sense of illness whilst building a link between their experiences and medical knowledge.