Content tagged "big data"
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Podcast: Nathan Matias, “Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society”
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?
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Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT’s Nathan Matias asks, 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?
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Podcast: Sun-ha Hong, “Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty”
Struggles with “big” data and surveillance are not just a question of privacy and security, but how promises of knowledge and its bounty enact a redistribution of authority
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Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty
Sun-ha Hong on how “big” data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
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Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
Drawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
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Open Government Data Intermediaries: Mediating Data to Drive Changes in the Built Environment
Less attention has been focused on a configuration of actors that facilitate the use of data by aggregating open government data and enhancing it.
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Podcast: Helen Nissenbaum, “Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation”
Data obfuscation is a compelling “weapon-of-the-weak,” which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated.
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Big Data in Time-Critical Circumstances: The Philippines Relief Effort as a Case Study for Journalists and Responders
This seminar will look at issues raised by a Big Data approach for both aid workers and journalists covering rapidly moving events.
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Podcast: Mary L. Gray, “Size Is Only Half the Story: Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA”
Recent provocations 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 of “big data”.
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
