Data Driven Societies: Public (Invisible) LaborProfessors Gaze & Gieseking

My Fb Network 8/26/13

My Fb Network 2/24/14

In Comparison: My Fb NetworksBefore Bowdoin At Bowdoin

Announcements! Again!

✦ Hackathons: 2/26 or 4/23 from 6-9pm, VAC 3rd fl. (must attend at least one) !

✦ Field trip 2/28 at 11am-1.30pm, need IDs

senaiben.org

dasburst.com

Redefining Publics through Data (Recap)

Redefining Publics through Data (Recap)✦ Proprietary ecologies - the increasingly privatized

environments our data flow and lives exist within

✦ Accumulation by dispossession - enclosure of the commons to consolidate class power

✦ Social reproduction - structures & activities that reproduce everyday life that are beyond producing goods and services (i.e. tending to children, education)

✦ Cyborg - being psychologically and socially configured within information systems

✦ Deep Web - the web that cannot be indexed by search engines like Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo

Digital Labor

Has anything really changed? Yes.

Trebor Scholz

In Search of a Lost PaycheckRecord earnings for corporations in 2010 and since:

✦ Offshore jobs reduce labor costs ✦ Increase productivity (a la cyborg living) ✦ Growing reliance on free labor (Ross 2013)

Amazon

“Free Labor”✦ Crowdsourcing ✦ Data mining ✦ Expanded prison labor programs ✦ Unpaid internships ✦ Volunteerism (Ross 2013)

Facebook

How can you shape your labor? Your agency?

Your life as a consumer and producer?

Next Class: Feb. 26

✦ Today: digital labor & you !

✦ Readings: Baum & boyd, Yau, & Golbeck - NOTE CHANGE!

!✦ Next class/lab:

✦ public v. private, the debate ✦ cleaning/organizing your Twitter

data & creating graphs