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Inequalities And Asymmetries, Tamara Kneese
Inequalities And Asymmetries, Tamara Kneese
Media Studies
The availability of data is not evenly distributed. Some organizations, agencies, and sectors are better equipped to gather, use, and analyze data than others. If data is transformative, what are the consequences of defense and security agencies having greater capacity to leverage data than, say, education or social services? Financial wherewithal, technical capacity, and political determinants all affect where data is employed. As data and analytics emerge, who benefits and who doesn't, both at the individual level and the institutional level? What about the asymmetries between those who provide the data and those who collect it? How does uneven data …
Inferences & Connections, Tamara Kneese
Inferences & Connections, Tamara Kneese
Media Studies
Data-oriented systems are inferring relationships between people based on genetic material, behavioral patterns (e.g., shared geography imputed by phone carriers), and performed associations (e.g., "friends" online or shared photographs). What responsibilities do entities who collect data that imputes connections have to those who are implicated by association? For example, as DNA and other biological materials are collected outside of medicine (e.g., at point of arrest, by informatics services like 23andme, for scientific inquiry), what rights do relatives (living, dead, and not-yet-born) have? In what contexts is it acceptable to act based on inferred associations and in which contexts is it …
Predicting Human Behavior, Tamara Kneese
Predicting Human Behavior, Tamara Kneese
Media Studies
Countless highly accurate predictions can be made from trace data, with varying degrees of personal or societal consequence (e.g., search engines predict hospital admission, gaming companies can predict compulsive gambling problems, government agencies predict criminal activity). Predicting human behavior can be both hugely beneficial and deeply problematic depending on the context. What kinds of predictive privacy harms are emerging? And what are the implications for systems of oversight and due process protections? For example, what are the implications for employment, health care and policing when predictive models are involved? How should varied organizations address what they can predict?
#Occupy In The San Francisco Bay, Dorothy Kidd
#Occupy In The San Francisco Bay, Dorothy Kidd
Media Studies
If Occupy Wall Street focused attention on the transnational resistance to the imaginaries and practices of neo-liberalization, the networked protests, collectively identified as #Occupy each emerged out of particular places, contexts and histories of contestation. This paper examines the significance in one urban region, the San Francisco Bay, and especially the intersection between #Occupy and longer-term residual urban social movements. Understanding neo-liberalization as a dynamic process, I begin by mapping the vectors of contention in the regional imposition of the neo-liberal project, and especially the sectors of housing, employment, education and media representation. I then analyse the intersection of the …
Introduction To Section Ii [Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward A Democratic Public Sphere (Vol. 1)], Dorothy Kidd
Introduction To Section Ii [Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward A Democratic Public Sphere (Vol. 1)], Dorothy Kidd
Media Studies
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Volume I: Introduction [Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward A Democratic Public Sphere (Vol. 1)], Dorothy Kidd, C Rodríguez
Volume I: Introduction [Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward A Democratic Public Sphere (Vol. 1)], Dorothy Kidd, C Rodríguez
Media Studies
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Clear Channel And The Public Airwaves, Dorothy Kidd
Clear Channel And The Public Airwaves, Dorothy Kidd
Media Studies
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