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Data Driven Societies: Power & FormatProfessors Gieseking & Gaze
✦ Algorithms are not only socially constructed, the social construction is always political
✦ Algorithms (ex. software-sorting, filter bubbles) shape our everyday lives
Recap: On Algorithms
✦ R/O Culture as consumption only vs. R/W Culture of mixing, matching, merging
✦ As businesses grow, they change culture, laws, norms, values, and—in so doing—us
✦ Remix produces community and education (per Lessig)
Recap: On Remix
Power & format matter just as much as the algorithm.
Long Tail
Anderson’s “The Long Tail”
Drawing is the ability to translate scenes into paper—making a direct translation. Visualization is the ability to put ideas onto paper—taking data and distilling it as a concept.
- Hagy (p. 363)
Indexed
• It’s an elephant !
• It’s art !
• It’s business
Indexed
• It’s timeless !
• It’s right now
Indexed
• It’s coded !
• It’s clear (and in context)
Indexed
• It’s learnable
Indexed
• It’s a buzzword !
• It’s an opportunity
Thinking about power and format, algorithms and remix, and, always, visualization with Matt Wilson.
Next Class: Apr. 30✦ Today: power & format
!✦ Next: Last lecture on
presentation skills with Hagy, time to work on final in class and lab
!✦ Last blog assignment
due 5/1 !✦ DCSI lectures: Matt
Wilson on 4/28 (req’d)