Todays links of interest

The Real Digital Revolution:
http://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/3280/
April 2016 (accessed today)

Know Thyself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself

Interesting! Another Searching blog:
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.co.uk/

More on tracking and what to do about it:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-history-search-tracking-data-how-to-delete

And a reminder of Alberto Frigo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Frigo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

Data Jam!

Jo Morrison:
http://digitalpresent.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2014/05/20/data-jam-at-open-data-institute/

Charlotte's guest post at the ODI:
http://theodi.org/blog/guest-post-data-jam-exploring-creative-uses-of-open-data

Restless Futures

Restless Futures was launched with a seminar exploring creative uses of data for art and design. Stellar guests: Gavin Starks,Julie Freeman, Chris Downs, Sarah Pennington and Nadine Jarvis presented their current projects and discussed the promises of open data for democratising information flows and access.

Following the seminar, UAL students attended a hands-on Data Jam at the Open Data Institute where they discovered new possibilities for making creative uses of open data and to explored data driven ideas by identifying social, financial, environmental problems that need to be solved.

This event was organised by artist and Chelsea PhD student Charlotte Webb @otheragent.

Rhizome - Seven on Seven

Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference pairs seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenges them to develop something new—be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine—over the course of a single day. View presentations from the full set of luminary Seven on Seven participants, below.
rhizome.org/sevenonseven

Critique, Social Media and the Information Society

From Charlotte Webb. 

So. Much. Information...

Fuchs, Christian and Marisol Sandoval, eds. 2014. Critique, Social Media

and the Information Society. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-72108-0.

http://fuchs.uti.at/books/critique-social-media-and-the-information-society/

This book is an outcome of the 4th ICTs and Society Conference

?Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information

Society: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media? (May 2-4, 2012,

Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden)

Read the introduction: Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval - Critique,

Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis

http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/intro.pdf

In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of

critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as

the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a

reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything.

On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter,

Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia

and Egypt. On the other hand, the question arises as to what actual role

social media play in contemporary capitalism, crisis, rebellions, the

strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of

participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted

also in a commodification of the communication commons, including

Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character.

This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind

of Internet are desirable, how capitalism, power structures and social

media are connected, how political struggles are connected to social

media, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us

about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and

how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative,

participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved.

With contributions by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Christian

Fuchs, Graham Murdock, Gunilla Bradley, Jernej Amon Prodnik, Margareta

Melin, Marisol Sandoval, Mark Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter

Dahlgren, Robert Prey, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer, Tobias

Olsson, Verena Kreilinger, Vincent Mosco, Wolfgang Hofkirchner.

Contents

1. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval

Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the

Age of Capitalist Crisis

Part I: Critical Studies of the Information Society

2. Christian Fuchs

Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social

Media

3. Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society

4. Sebastian Sevignani, Robert Prey, Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer,

Jernej Amon Prodnik and Verena Kreilinger

Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The

Perspective of Emerging Scholars

5. Gunilla Bradley

Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and

Communication Society

Part II: Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies

6. Andrew Feenberg

Great Refusal or Long March: How to Think About the Internet

7. Graham Murdock

Producing Consumerism: Commodities, Ideologies, Practices

8. Marisol Sandoval

Social Media?: The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media

9. Nick Dyer-Witheford

The Global Worker and the Digital Front

10. Mark Andrejevic

Alienation?s Returns

11. Peter Dahlgren

Social Media and Political Participation: Discourse and Deflection

12. Tobias Olsson

?The Architecture of Participation?: For Citizens or Consumers?

Part III: Critical Studies of Communication Labour

13. Catherine McKercher

Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of

Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States

14. Margareta Melin

Flight as Fight: Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism

15. Vincent Mosco

Marx is Back, But Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?: On the

Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today

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Big data: are we making a big mistake?

By Tim Harford

"Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media."

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