...social world accurately is to know how to sell anything from a political position, a product, to one’s own authority. Big Data sells itself as a knowledge that equals power....
...want, but then, Andrejevic argues, “Freedom consists of choosing one’s own invented version of history invoked for the purposes of defending the individuating logic of market competition.” Since Big Data...
...in binary code. Datasift, a Big Data analytics company that promises to “power any decision with social data,” refers to its social media crawling collection and analytics platform as “Historics.”...
...big data, and despite their enormous budgets, technical infrastructure, and trained analysts, the big-data bonanza is not enough: They are reaching for other epistemologies by the dozen to try and...
...it is determined by power relations. Amassing more data won't somehow undo the hierarchy; it just gives people in the position to impose social judgments more information to rationalize their...
...The algorithms that make up Big Data distribute complicity for death across the populations they surveil Once upon a time, the virtual represented a domain of free play, a...
...who reproduce labor power as mothers and housewives: a heavy labor, not salaried, socially unrecognized, and barely thanked. Commending this work to work who carry it out privately within the...
...hacking digital walls to keep the sunlight pouring in. This version of the engaged citizen works like an efficient algorithm, extracting, disseminating, and organizing piles of data. But data and...
...to share that responsibility with a data bank whose scale one cannot comprehend. In this way, the Data Sublime confronts the individual with an almost irresistible paradox. Under neoliberal conditions,...
...Ghost in the Machine, 1993 The form of power that Big Data employs is not so much panoptic as it is pan-analytic. At this very moment, the phone,...
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
...haven’t. Data doesn’t rally the troops, nor does yet another New York Times story telling a slightly more graphic version of the same old tragedy. Protesters end up fighting for...
...Jacobi with enough information to fill 24 separate tables of comparative data, which she used as a foundation to prove that women experienced no systematic or predictable debility during menstruation....
...images by imp kerr Quantified Self is a passionate political “movement” without concrete demands. That should sound familiar On a July evening at the Microsoft New England Research...
...media and allow forecasting to fully realize its capacity to tailor categories and output to observed user behavior. Scaled up in size and in processing power, big data could be...