7. Redefining Publics through
Data (Recap)
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Proprietary ecologies - the increasingly privatized
environments our data flow and lives exist within
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Accumulation by dispossession - enclosure of the commons
to consolidate class power
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Social reproduction - structures & activities that reproduce
everyday life that are beyond producing goods and services (i.e.
tending to children, education)
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Cyborg - being psychologically and socially configured within
information systems
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Deep Web - the web that cannot be indexed by search engines
like Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo
9. In Search of a Lost Paycheck
Record earnings for corporations in 2010 and since:
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Offshore jobs reduce labor costs
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Increase productivity (a la cyborg living)
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Growing reliance on free labor (Ross 2013)
Amazon
11. How can you shape your labor?
Your agency?
Your life as a consumer and producer?
12. Next Class: Feb. 26
Today: digital labor & you
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Readings: Baum & boyd, Yau, &
Golbeck - NOTE CHANGE!
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Next class/lab:
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public v. private, the debate
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cleaning/organizing your Twitter
data & creating graphs