Data Driven Societies
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College
February 19, 2014
Professors Gieseking & Gaze
Lecture Slides "Redefining Publics through Data"
2. Announcements!
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Hackathons: 2/26 or 4/23
from 6-9pm, VAC 3rd fl.
(must attend at least one)
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Field trip 2/28 at
11am-1.30pm, need IDs
senaiben.org
4. Digital Natives, a.k.a. Digitized
American Youth
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77% have a cell phone
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95% have internet
access
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80% with internet
access use social media
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Average of 3,417 texts
per month
from the
Pew Internet & American Life Project 2011-2012
digitalfamiysummit.com
7. What makes proprietary
ecologies important?
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Proprietary ecologies - the increasingly privatized
environments our data flow and lives exist within
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Accumulation by dispossession - enclosure of the
commons to consolidate class power
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Cyborg - being psychologically and socially configured
within information systems
8. The Deep Web & Tor
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Deep Web - the web that cannot be indexed by search
engines like Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo
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Tor - layers of encryption that are used to anonymize
communication
9. Representing Representation
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2-3 minutes: present you peer’s research based on her or his
representation post
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1 minute rebuttal: add anything else you want to
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When you are all complete, discuss:
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What surprised (or not) you about what you heard?
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What trends do you see developing across your hashtag
theme? What is specific to you?
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What trends do you think could be explored further in your
peers’ hashtag analysis in the future? And in your own future
analysis?
11. Next Class: Feb. 24
Today: even more publicness
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Blog comment: due Monday! email
forthcoming during lab
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Readings: Golbeck, Irani, Ross
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Next class:
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digital / free / invisibilized labor
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cleaning/organizing your Twitter
data