Data Driven Societies
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College
February 26, 2014
Professors Gieseking & Gaze
Lecture Slides "Convincing the Public / Publics Convincing Themselves"
2. Announcements! Again!
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Field trip 2/28 at
11.30am-2pm
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We need::
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IDs
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Sign up in advance
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And van drivers!
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http://bit.ly/dds-fieldtrip
senaiben.org
3. Social Scientific Approach
0. Identify an issue
1. Research question
2. Theoretical approach
3. Literature review
4. Methods
5. Analysis
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
dasburst.com
4. Why learn theory?
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Proprietary ecologies
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Representation
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Remote sensing
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GPS
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“The View from Nowhere”
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Data visualization
Crowdsourcing
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WWW
Accumulation by dispossession
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HTTP
Social reproduction
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DARPAnet
Data scraping
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Chartjunk
The deep web
Information-as-control
Information-as-freedom
Data v.s information vs.
knowledge
dasburst.com
6. Publics & Counterpublics
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Publics - real and imagined communities in which
ideas and media are exchanged, and which dictate
political, cultural, and economic norms
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Counterpublics - alternate publics that allow for
resistance to dominant cultural, political, or economic
norms
secretsofthefed.com
8. How social media changed
publicness
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Scalability
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Shifted what is public and
private
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Redefined the audience
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Context collapse
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Access to being heard and
seen
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Persistence
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Replicability
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Searchability (Baum & boyd
2012)
wikipedia
9. How can you shape your labor?
Your agency?
Your life as a consumer and producer?
10. Next Class: Mar. 3
Today: the publics & digital labor
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Blog post: due Monday on your graphs
with email forthcoming during lab
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Readings: Lessig & Yau
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Next class:
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The Life of Code begins!
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public & private debate forthcoming