On 14/08/2013 19:05, Rob Myers wrote:
On 14/08/13 01:51 AM, marc garrett wrote:
http://culturedigitally.org/2013/06/we-are-what-we-tweet-the-problem-with-a-big-data-world-when-everything-you-say-is-data-mined/
Social media have certainly been supported so strongly because of the
personal data they allow to be harvested. This was not their original
intent (as the people who constantly tell us how politically hopeless
geeks are should easily be able to believe), and the distortions they
impose on the presentation, self-representation and actions of the
subjects whose data they collect are politically problematic for both
their proponents and opponents.
They say "The city is one giant public opinion poll, data-mining the
minds of millions of people to help companies and governments make
decisions."
My question is whether we can be said to be expressing an opinion through a
string of isolated actions and interactions, taken (for the purposes of data
aggregation) completely out of context.
"These resistances, however, run the risk of just being filtered out."
Worse than that, they will be recuperated by the very system they
critique and be used to improve it or at least to increase its profits
(Time Warner profit from every mask Anonymous, or Justin Bieber, buys).
Dammit shouldn't have said that then....
This is the fate of critique.
The key is to keep moving.
quick... next!
- Rob.
: )
R
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