Data Driven Societies Digital & Computational Studies Bowdoin College February 24, 2014 Professors Gieseking & Gaze Lecture Slides "Public (Invisible) Labor"

1. Data Driven Societies:
Public (Invisible) Labor
Professors Gaze & Gieseking

2. My Fb Network 8/26/13

3. My Fb Network 2/24/14

4. In Comparison: My Fb Networks
Before Bowdoin
At Bowdoin

5. Announcements! Again!
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Hackathons: 2/26 or 4/23
from 6-9pm, VAC 3rd fl.
(must attend at least one)
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Field trip 2/28 at
11am-1.30pm, need IDs
senaiben.org

6. Redefining Publics through
Data (Recap)
dasburst.com

7. Redefining Publics through
Data (Recap)
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Proprietary ecologies - the increasingly privatized
environments our data flow and lives exist within
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Accumulation by dispossession - enclosure of the commons
to consolidate class power
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Social reproduction - structures & activities that reproduce
everyday life that are beyond producing goods and services (i.e.
tending to children, education)
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Cyborg - being psychologically and socially configured within
information systems
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Deep Web - the web that cannot be indexed by search engines
like Google, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo

8. Digital Labor
Has anything really changed? Yes.
Trebor Scholz

9. In Search of a Lost Paycheck
Record earnings for corporations in 2010 and since:
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Offshore jobs reduce labor costs
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Increase productivity (a la cyborg living)
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Growing reliance on free labor (Ross 2013)
Amazon

10. “Free Labor”
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Crowdsourcing
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Data mining
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Expanded prison labor programs
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Unpaid internships
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Volunteerism (Ross 2013)
Facebook

11. How can you shape your labor?
Your agency?
Your life as a consumer and producer?

12. Next Class: Feb. 26
Today: digital labor & you
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Readings: Baum & boyd, Yau, &
Golbeck - NOTE CHANGE!
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Next class/lab:
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public v. private, the debate
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cleaning/organizing your Twitter
data & creating graphs