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)