A Reading from 'Gharavi's Bio'
TNI contributor and blogger Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Brian Droitcour
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. ...
Distracted by Attention
..."like" button compresses so many responses (love, friendship, support) into an easily quantifiable data point. But do such extraction strategies amount to a form of labor exploitation? Citton considers 19th...
Sunday Reading
...of Steven Salaita Queer Black Studies Now Big Data and the‘Physics’ of Social Harmony ReclaimUC: Video: tear gas attack at UC Berkeley (1969) The hunger crisis in America's universities L.A....
Sunday Reading
...lives & stop corruption? "Arbitrary & capricious." Kerim Friedman: Air pollution leading cause of cancer The Insidious Power of Not-Quite-Harassment Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls' Arresting the...
Sunday Reading
...sometimes surprise even historians. Frank Pasquale: Steve Jobs, criminal mastermind. Will digital planning replace capitalism? Machine learning competitions. When did feudalism replace capitalism? To bone up on big data, read...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...the value of users’ data trails and shared content to social media companies and their clients. Yet such a defense is hard to envision, because most users would have trouble...
Sunday Reading
...Black People Anguish of jailed lawyers' families Perspective on Elie Wiesel's Legacy Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations Undermining the Monarchy The Counter-Revolution of 1776 Fear of Slave Revolts Reclaim UC:...
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...
Just the Facts
...and cherry-pick pieces of ambiguous evidence that confirm their beliefs. They can thus present themselves as enlightened empiricists who, through sustained diligent analysis and research, have come to understand the...
Sunday Reading
...are Falling Down on Digital Workers Uber, or: The Technics of Socially Corrosive Mobility Uber's Convenient Racial Politics 2016 Presidential Race Emerging as First Uber Election Uber: When Big Data...
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...
Exposed Bricks
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
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...
Permission Slips
...a small recent sample from a longer privacy counternarrative, one that understands that the street photographer doesn’t just want your image, but the clicks, likes, followers, and big data it...
Faith
...been so much for us to doubt. Historians of information claim that in the past few decades, our species has produced more data than in the entire prior span of...