bowdoin: data driven socities 2014 - convincing the public / publics convincing themselves 2/26/14

Data Driven Societies: Convincing the Public / Publics Convincing ThemselvesProfessors Gaze & Gieseking

Announcements! Again!✦ Field trip 2/28 at

11.30am-2pm ✦ We need::

✦ IDs ✦ Sign up in advance ✦ And van drivers!

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Social Scientific Approach

0. Identify an issue 1. Research question 2. Theoretical approach 3. Literature review 4. Methods 5. Analysis 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion

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Why learn theory?✦ Proprietary ecologies ✦ The deep web ✦ Information-as-control ✦ Information-as-freedom ✦ Data v.s information vs.

knowledge ✦ Crowdsourcing ✦ Accumulation by dispossession ✦ Social reproduction ✦ Data scraping

✦ Representation ✦ Remote sensing ✦ GPS ✦ “The View from Nowhere” ✦ Data visualization ✦ WWW ✦ HTTP ✦ DARPAnet ✦ Chartjunk

Let’s begin again: “Free Labor”??

✦ Crowdsourcing ✦ Data mining ✦ Expanded prison labor programs ✦ Unpaid internships ✦ Volunteerism (Ross 2013)

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Publics & Counterpublics✦ Publics - real and imagined communities in which

ideas and media are exchanged, and which dictate political, cultural, and economic norms

✦ Counterpublics - alternate publics that allow for resistance to dominant cultural, political, or economic norms

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Determining our publicness

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How social media changed publicness✦ Scalability ✦ Shifted what is public and

private ✦ Redefined the audience ✦ Context collapse ✦ Access to being heard and

seen ✦ Persistence ✦ Replicability ✦ Searchability (Baum & boyd

2012)

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How can you shape your labor? Your agency?

Your life as a consumer and producer?

Next Class: Mar. 3✦ Today: the publics & digital labor !

✦ Blog post: due Monday on your graphs with email forthcoming during lab !

✦ Readings: Lessig & Yau !

✦ Next class: ✦ The Life of Code begins! ✦ public & private debate forthcoming