Sunday Reading
...Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy The Airbnb Effect Commuter Students Using Technology Silent and Independent: Student Use of Academic Library Study Space Political Data is Everywhere-- But what...
Sunday Reading
...in the incident and that the defendants 'acted reasonably and with good intentions.'" Meanwhile, CSU plans to outsource its data storage to private data centers, leading to possibly the best...
Reading Slowly
...from the data stream, and I find myself resisting and resenting it, as if it were taking me away from life and from the world. Digitization has of course made...
Representing Crisis
...status, not for power or respect—we don’t have much, as he saw it—but for the granule of authenticity the institution’s history of struggle grants us. It is easy to portray...
Dating robots
...universal causes of love (there are 10 of them, including "desirable characteristics of the other" and "filling needs"), presents some survey data that purports to reveal what people get out...
A Reading from 'Gharavi's Bio'
TNI contributor and blogger Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Brian Droitcour
Sunday Reading
...so rarely get applied to drug sentences? Big Data meets The Ice Storm. "Get off of my bike path!!"; new politics of surveillance. Eurocloud; does Quaero now seem like such...
Hall of Mirrors
...of social control requires one to produce, not repress, desires. This, as Foucault warns, is power’s most insidious ploy: By making confession seem a road to salvation, we have come...
Sunday Reading
...Kerim Friedman: “They Want to Prohibit Us From Dreaming” Cuomo Bares Fangs at CUNY Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely...
The Myth of Cyberspace
...from the banks of every computer in the human system ... Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. A “nonspace,” meaning that...
Sunday Reading
...data means hiring "more personnel or personnel with new and more expensive skill sets" Obama's whack-a-mole approach to higher ed Why does college cost so much—and why do so many...
This Sex Which Is Not Two
...you can begin to see what the components of it are. A dynamic systems approach always has to be developmental and longitudinal. A cross-sectional bit of data is just the...
Sunday Reading
...has grown three times as much as spending on public education Meet Silicon Valley's gilded interns Yes, there is racial "bias" in police shootings "In short, the data might be...
Experiments in inertia
...the self's potential interestingness to infinity as the data compiles to make up charts and graphs and so on. Like minimalist art, it eliminates subjectivity and creativity and, to some...
Collector's Item
...all pretty banal from the human point of view. But big data sees the eternal value in all our curating and collecting, and it will save us all. ...
Sunday Reading
...Dataveillance (video) A Data Revolution for Whom? High-Tech Hand Work Typewriter, Telephone, Transistor: Labor Politics in Three Formats New Topics in Social Computing: Data and Education Our Universities: The Outrageous...