Data Driven Societies: Redefining Publics through DataProfessors Gaze & Gieseking

Announcements!

✦ Hackathons: 2/26 or 4/23 from 6-9pm, VAC 3rd fl. (must attend at least one) !

✦ Field trip 2/28 at 11am-1.30pm, need IDs

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What Does It Mean to Go Public?

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Digital Natives, a.k.a. Digitized American Youth

✦ 77% have a cell phone ✦ 95% have internet

access ✦ 80% with internet

access use social media ✦ Average of 3,417 texts

per month from the

Pew Internet & American Life Project 2011-2012 digitalfamiysummit.com

Everyday life, i.e. proprietary ecologies

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MyDigitalFootprint.org

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What makes proprietary ecologies important?✦ Proprietary ecologies - the increasingly privatized

environments our data flow and lives exist within !

✦ Accumulation by dispossession - enclosure of the commons to consolidate class power

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✦ Cyborg - being psychologically and socially configured within information systems

The Deep Web & Tor✦ Deep Web - the web that cannot be indexed by search

engines like Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo !

✦ Tor - layers of encryption that are used to anonymize communication

Representing Representation✦ 2-3 minutes: present you peer’s research based on her or his

representation post ✦ 1 minute rebuttal: add anything else you want to !

When you are all complete, discuss: ✦ What surprised (or not) you about what you heard? ✦ What trends do you see developing across your hashtag

theme? What is specific to you? ✦ What trends do you think could be explored further in your

peers’ hashtag analysis in the future? And in your own future analysis?

So!

What is public? !

And what is private? !

The debate rages on!

Next Class: Feb. 24✦ Today: even more publicness !

✦ Blog comment: due Monday! email forthcoming during lab !

✦ Readings: Golbeck, Irani, Ross !

✦ Next class: ✦ digital / free / invisibilized labor ✦ cleaning/organizing your Twitter

data