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    Spartan Daily, January 25, 2006

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    Volume 126, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10201/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, February 6, 1979

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    Volume 72, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6433/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, February 11, 1981

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    Volume 76, Issue 13https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6717/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, February 5, 1981

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    Volume 76, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6713/thumbnail.jp

    Regulating Habit-Forming Technology

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    Tech developers, like slot machine designers, strive to maximize the user’s “time on device.” They do so by designing habit-forming products— products that draw consciously on the same behavioral design strategies that the casino industry pioneered. The predictable result is that most tech users spend more time on device than they would like, about five hours of phone time a day, while a substantial minority develop life-changing behavioral problems similar to problem gambling. Other countries have begun to regulate habit-forming tech, and American jurisdictions may soon follow suit. Several state legislatures today are considering bills to regulate “loot boxes,” a highly addictive slot-machine- like mechanic that is common in online video games. The Federal Trade Commission has also announced an investigation into the practice. As public concern mounts, it is surprisingly easy to envision consumer regulation extending beyond video games to other types of apps. Just as tobacco regulations might prohibit brightly colored packaging and fruity flavors, a social media regulation might limit the use of red notification badges or “streaks” that reward users for daily use. It is unclear how much of this regulation could survive First Amendment scrutiny; software, unlike other consumer products, is widely understood as a form of protected “expression.” But it is also unclear whether well-drawn laws to combat compulsive technology use would seriously threaten First Amendment values. At a very low cost to the expressive interests of tech companies, these laws may well enhance the quality and efficacy of online speech by mitigating distraction and promoting deliberation

    Spartan Daily, October 19, 1981

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    Volume 77, Issue 33https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6809/thumbnail.jp

    Reading Datasets: Strategies for Interpreting the Politics of Data Signification

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    All datasets emerge from and are enmeshed in power-laden semiotic systems. While emerging data ethics curriculum is supporting data science students in identifying data biases and their consequences, critical attention to the cultural histories and vested interests animating data semantics is needed to elucidate the assumptions and political commitments on which data rest, along with the externalities they produce. In this article, I introduce three modes of reading that can be engaged when studying datasets—a denotative reading (extrapolating the literal meaning of values in a dataset), a connotative reading (tracing the socio-political provenance of data semantics), and a deconstructive reading (seeking what gets Othered through data semantics and structure). I then outline how I have taught students to engage these methods when analyzing three datasets in Data and Society—a course designed to cultivate student competency in politically aware data analysis and interpretation. I show how combined, the reading strategies prompt students to grapple with the double binds of perceiving contemporary problems through systems of representation that are always situated, incomplete, and inflected with diverse politics. While I introduce these methods in the context of teaching, I argue that the methods are integral to any data practice in the conclusion

    Spartan Daily, October 2, 1981

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    Volume 77, Issue 22https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6798/thumbnail.jp

    Spartan Daily, November 21, 1968

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    Spartan Daily, February 26, 1980

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    Volume 74, Issue 18https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6585/thumbnail.jp
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