Hacking the social life of Big Data

This paper builds on the Our Data Ourselves research project, which examined ways of understanding and reclaiming the data that young people produce on smartphone devices. Here we explore the growing usage and centrality of mobiles in the lives of young people, questioning what data-making possibilities exist if users can either uncover and/or capture what data controllers such as Facebook monetize and share about themselves with third-parties. We outline the MobileMiner, an app we created to consider how gaining access to one’s own data not only augments the agency of the individual but of the collective user. Finally, we discuss the data making that transpired during our hackathon. Such interventions in the enclosed processes of datafication are meant as a preliminary investigation into the possibilities that arise when young people are given back the data which they are normally structurally precluded from accessing

Mining Mobile Youth Cultures

In this short paper we discuss our work on coresearch devices with a young coder community, which help investigate big social data collected by mobile phones. The development was accompanied by focus groups and interviews on privacy attitudes, and aims to explore how youth cultures are tracked in mobile phone data

Return to Sarah: for Orchestra

Return to Sarah is a work for orchestra inspired by the composer\u27s favorite novel depicted through programmatic, motivic, and introspective composition. The music renders the story through the eyes of the composer

Data Motility: The Materiality of Big Social Data

In this article, the author uses Foucault's largely overlooked but vital concept, the dispositif, in relation to the recent rise of mobility, explosion of data and proliferation of platforms and apps. With a focus on how data an individual generates increasingly moves autonomously of their control, he presents the dispositif of ‘data motility’ to develop a new materialist analysis of the digital human as a discursive and non-discursive assemblage

Uncloaking the Invisible Hand: Reintroducing Fairness to Antitrust Analyses

Antitrust doctrine adopted the Chicago School’s narrow consumer welfare and economic efficiency analysis in the early 1970s. Since then, enforcement has drastically reduced, and market concentration has substantially increased. But the Chicago School is not true to either the intent of the original antitrust legislation – the Sherman Act – nor to the ‘economist’ they adopted as their ultimate advocate, Adam Smith. The Chicago School has cherry picked Adam Smith’s written works to support market deregulation and the existence of a perfectly efficient, rational marketplace, but this is not an accurate rendition of his works. Rather, Adam Smith was a philosopher who emphasized humans are more than homo economicus; the market requires morality and social support to function. The absence of fairness and morality from antitrust analyses allows for court decisions like Ohio v. Am. Express Co., mergers like that between AT&T and Time Warner, and monopolies like Amazon to continue existing without challenge. Adding fairness to the equation is one method of encouraging competition and leveling the playing field. The Sherman Act’s legislators and Adam Smith explicitly contemplate fairness and morality. The courts are already equipped to judge fairness in complex economic and business- centered cases. Legislators are currently pushing to give government antitrust enforcers more power to regulate, but the courts must also be prepared to deal with lawsuits challenging anticompetitive behavior. Fairness is one factor easily supported by intent, history, reason, and necessity

02/18/1947 Letter from Ville de Beauport

Letter from Albert E. Coté, Ex-President Le Zouave , to Louis-Philippe Gagné congratulating him on his election to the office of Mayor of Lewiston, Maine.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-lpg-1947-01-03/1008/thumbnail.jp

Editorial: Emergence delirium: The past, the present, and maybe the future

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