Bowdoin: Data Driven Socities 2014 - Convincing the Public / Publics Convincing Themselves 2/26/14
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Data Driven Societies: Code Is…Professors Gaze & Gieseking
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Convincing the Public / Publics Convincing Themselves (Recap)
0. Identify an issue 1. Research question 2. Theoretical approach 3. Literature review 4. Methods 5. Analysis 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion
Publics & Counterpublics (Recap)
✦ Publics - real and imagined communities in which ideas and media are exchanged, and which dictate political, cultural, and economic norms
✦ Counterpublics - alternate publics that allow for resistance to dominant cultural, political, or economic norms
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Determining our Publicness (Recap)
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How Social Media Changed Publicness (Recap)
✦ Scalability ✦ Shifted what is public and private ✦ Redefined the audience ✦ Context collapse ✦ Access to being heard and seen ✦ Persistence ✦ Replicability ✦ Searchability (Baym & boyd 2012)
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Code is Law
Code is… Law
✦ As cyberspace arose, many originally theorized internet as ideal libertarian society !
✦ Then: growth in malware, shifts in privacy, issues in data security, and questioning government control of data !
✦ Now as governments cannot gather the data they need due to privacy restrictions, they gather data from corporations who work through the market. !
How do we regulate code?
Code is… Law
✦ Lessig recommends using code — both the codes that shape society and computer code — to define law.
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✦ Code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), especially for the purposes of secrecy
✦ Code is computer program instructions !
“Code is never found; it is only ever made, and only ever made by us.” (Lessig 2006, 6)
On the path we have chosen, we will remake what cyberspace was. … What values should be built into the space [a.k.a. cyberspace] to
encourage what forms of life? -Lessig (2006, 5, 6)
Next Class: Mar. 5✦ Today: code is… !
✦ Blog post: due Wednesday on your graphs (see email) !
✦ Readings: Yau (Ch. 4, you read this by now) — NOTE CHANGE with syllabus updates forthcoming !
✦ Next class / lab: ✦ The Life of Code continues! ✦ mapping your Twitter data