Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
It is a truth universally acknowledged that digital technologies have immensely enhanced existing means of surveillance by government and corporations and have created powerful new instruments to...
View ArticlePodcast: Mary L. Gray, “Size Is Only Half the Story: Valuing the...
Recent provocations (boyd and Crawford, 2011) about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, as a particular kind...
View ArticleBig Data in Time-Critical Circumstances: The Philippines Relief Effort as a...
Jan/27 Mon 12:00PM-02:00PM Jan/29 Wed 12:00PM-02:00PM The Typhoon Haiyan disaster provides a major application of Big Data to disaster relief. This seminar will look at issues raised by a Big Data...
View ArticlePodcast: Helen Nissenbaum, “Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation”
Against inexorable machinations of data surveillance, analysis, and profiling, data obfuscation holds promise of relief. Whether it can withstand countervailing analytics is an intriguing question;...
View ArticleOpen Government Data Intermediaries: Mediating Data to Drive Changes in the...
In recent years open data initiatives, which make government data publicly available in a machine-readable format for reuse and redistribution, have proliferated, driven by the launch of open-data...
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
Nick Seaver, CMS ’10, and Assistant Professor at Tufts University The algorithmic infrastructures of the internet are made by a weird cast of characters: rock stars, gurus, ninjas, wizards, alchemists,...
View ArticlePodcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
The algorithmic infrastructures of the internet are made by a weird cast of characters: rock stars, gurus, ninjas, wizards, alchemists, park rangers, gardeners, plumbers, and janitors can all be found...
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Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty
Sun-ha HongMellon Postdoctoral Fellow The present age is one of growing faith in machinic knowledge. From state surveillance to self-tracking technologies, we find lofty promises about the power of...
View ArticlePodcast: Sun-ha Hong, “Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty”
The present age is one of growing faith in machinic knowledge. From state surveillance to self-tracking technologies, we find lofty promises about the power of “raw” data, sensing machines and...
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Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
J. Nathan MatiasPh.D. student, MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own...
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How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale? In the 1940s-70s, debates over authoritarian uses of...
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