[after-media] weekend readings, august 22, 2014

[sumandro]

Dear all,

This is to begin a weekly sharing of weekend readings. The set of
readings will vary from thematic collections to readings published (or
read by me) during the past week.

For obvious reasons, the selection of links will reflect my own academic
and reading interests. I hope other members of the list will also be
interested in contributing to this series.

If you want to share the weekend readings for a week, just send an email
to the group to inform us.

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*Various - danah boyd's 'It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked
Teens' - Collaborative Book Review and Engagement*

"The book is a fascinating study of youth and social media and we
believe that it will become the go-to source on this topic, not only
within the book’s North American contexts but also in a more global scope...

[W]e have gathered reviewers from different universities, who work in
different academic disciplines, and are at different points in their
academic career. This fact also explains the somewhat “uneven”
distribution of the number of reviews for each chapter and the diverse
approaches the reviewers take. The reviews in this project comprise
personal engagements with the chapter in question, a “report” of the
chapter’s content, and pedagogical resources that are designed in
conversation with the book...

We feel that the issue of youth engagement with social media is an
important one as social media is actively shaping and being shaped by
contemporary society, and boyd’s book comes at an especially important
time. We hope that by carrying out this engaging and collaborative
project, you will be inspired to read, learn, and teach this book in the
future."

URL:
<http://www.hastac.org/pages/its-complicated-social-lives-networked-teens-danah-boyd-collaborative-book-engagement>

*Tom Scheinfeldt - 'Getting into Digital Humanities: A top-ten list'*

"Today I’ll be joining a roundtable discussion hosted by the New York
Council for the Humanities for its incoming class of public humanities
fellows. I was asked to prepare a “top-ten list” for public humanists
looking to get started in digtial humanities, and with the help of
friends on Twitter, I came up with the following..."

URL:
<http://www.foundhistory.org/2014/08/18/getting-into-digital-humanities-a-top-ten-list/>

*Jordan Pearson - '​Teachers Are Worried Google Will Data-Mine the
Classroom'*

"With is newly announced “Classroom” project, Google is hoping to
provide educators with an all-in-one platform for managing assignments
and sharing documents. Once you agree to its terms of service. And
therein lies the rub...

For several years, the Canadian Association of University Teachers
(CAUT) has held the position that Google’s intrusion into the arena of
education poses nothing short of a threat to academia’s hallowed freedom
of ideas by compromising the privacy and security of educators’ files.
Classroom, which is linked to Google Drive, exacerbates this concern...

"Classroom is part of Google Apps for Education and we do NOT scan
Google Apps for Education for advertising purposes. Google Apps for
Education services do not collect or use student data for advertising
purposes or create advertising profiles," a Google spokesperson told
Motherboard."

URL:
<http://motherboard.vice.com/read/teachers-are-worried-google-will-data-mine-the-classroom>

*Nicholas Felton - '2013 Annual Report'*

"This report examines a year of Nicholas Felton’s communication data. It
aspires to uncover patterns and insights within the data and metadata of
a large and personal data set. Sources include conversations, SMS,
telephone calls, email, Facebook messages and physical mail."

URL: <http://feltron.com/FAR13.html>

*Rob Kitchin and Tracey Lauriault - 'Towards Critical Data Studies:
Charting and Unpacking Data Assemblages and Their Work'*

"The growth of big data and the development of digital data
infrastructures raises numerous questions about the nature of data, how
they are being produced, organized, analyzed and employed, and how best
to make sense of them and the work they do. Critical data studies
endeavours to answer such questions. This paper sets out a vision for
critical data studies, building on the initial provocations of Dalton
and Thatcher (2014). It is divided into three sections. The first
details the recent step change in the production and employment of data
and how data and databases are being reconceptualised. The second
forwards the notion of a data assemblage that encompasses all of the
technological, political, social and economic apparatuses and elements
that constitutes and frames the generation, circulation and deployment
of data. Drawing on the ideas of Michel Foucault and Ian Hacking it is
posited that one way to enact critical data studies is to chart and
unpack data assemblages. The third starts to unpack some the ways that
data assemblages do work in the world with respect to dataveillance and
the erosion of privacy, profiling and social sorting, anticipatory
governance, and secondary uses and control creep. The paper concludes by
arguing for greater conceptual work and empirical research to underpin
and flesh out critical data studies."

URL:
<http://www.nuim.ie/progcity/2014/07/new-paper-towards-critical-data-studies-charting-and-unpacking-data-assemblages-and-their-work/>

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Happy reading,

sumandro

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sumandro chattapadhyay

<ajantriks.net>
<http://ajantriks.github.io/sumandro_public_key.asc>

research associate
the sarai programme
centre for the study of developing societies
<sarai.net>

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