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Platform openness, data sharing and visions democracy
Dr Aristea Fotopoulou (University of Sussex/ 2014 Visiting Scholar Science & Justice).
Center for Cultural Studies University of California, Santa Cruz 5 February 2014
Supported by: RCUK Digital Economy NEMODE +, Tracking biodata: issues of ownership and sharing. EPINET is an EU funded project under the seventh framework program, coordinated by the Centre for the studies of the sciences and humanities, University of Bergen.
'All these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data':
SLIDE 2 Guiding questions & theoretical perspective
Types of knowledge are is being made/epistemic communities? Role of mediated self-disclosure and identity performance? Privacy/ownership
Theoretical perspective:
- A broader sociological perspective
- Ritualistic performance
- Naturalization of quantification with digital technologies
Methodological perspective: Social Analytics (developed with Nick Couldry in forthcoming article Real Social Analytics)
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Sensors, apps and all these data: the landscape
Technologies and devices: Metadata, tracking and apps, quantification e.g. Google Glass
SLIDE 4 50 billion devices and objects will be online in 2020
- embedded devices (ubiquitous computing)
- Internet of Things
- smart cities - buildings, roads, household appliances
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Recognised brands
Fitbit, myZeo, BodyMedia, MapMyRun, RunKeeper, MoodPanda, Nike Fuelband, The Eatery, Luminosity’s Brain Trainer,NeuroSky, Emotiv brain-computer interfaces (BCI)
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Devices and promises
SLIDE 8 Clinical - reality vs grand narratives
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Big data
Large complex data sets stored and managed in the cloud currently on the order of zettabytes (10,000 gigabites) per year
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Algorithmic living and right to be forgotten
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Privacy?
“effective right to oblivion confirms the need for a paradigm shift in the traditional understanding of private information/life, leading to a multidimensional conceptualisation of the right to privacy” (Xanthoulis 2013)
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'GE has wired hardware with innovative software using data to track patients and equipment. Brilliant Machines Are Transforming the Patient Experience'
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From lab to living room
“[...] neoliberalist desires for quick fixes; a growing desire for self-computational wearable and mobile devices; common discourses linking data collection to human progress; and reductionist consumer science discourses that present the body and mind as segmented, coherent, modular systems” (Gardner 2013)
SLIDE 14 Tiziana Terranova
“Cultural and technical labor are not produced by capitalism in any direct, cause-and-effect fashion; that is …they have developed in relation to the expansion
- f the cultural industries and are part of a process of
economic experimentation with the creation of monetary value out of knowledge/culture/affect”
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Sensors, apps and all these data: the landscape
Users: self-tracking, bodyblogging and personal informatics
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Colour Scheme
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There is an app AND a sensor for that
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Apple wants to let you know when to buy new shoes
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Sensor-lands and Data-utopias
“Technology will be able to understand how you feel. The fridge will be able to create recipes for you by knowing the blood sugar levels of your home.” (BioBeats)
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Sensor-lands and Data-utopias
SLIDE 21 Visualization of Keywords Used in Quantified Tracking Device Descriptions.
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Not Just More Data—New Kinds of Data!
Kallinikos, 2009: ‘data’ only ever become ‘information’ when they are interpreted in a context that is defined relative to the interests of particular actors.
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BIG DATA ARE CULTURAL Data not 'just numbers' : they are culturally produced and interpreted (Gitelman, 2013, Bowker, 2005).
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a.fotopoulou@sussex.ac.uk Web: http:// loopingthreads.com https://trackingbiodataproject.wordpress.com/
Dr Aristea Fotopoulou 2014 Visiting Scholar Research Center Science and Justice, University of California Santa Cruz
