Dataism

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How much knowledge can be revealed with the use of data?

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Books (6 of 20)
  • The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
    The Qualified Self offers a new perspective on how social media users construct and distribute 'self-portraits' through media technologies. A truly original revision of 'mediated memories' and a much-needed update to the age of connectivity.
  • The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts
    Scientific management asked us to be efficient. Now, we are asked to be agile. But what does this mean for the everyday lives we lead?
  • Self-tracking
    What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.
  • The Qualified Self
    The Qualified Self offers an excellent overview of the breadth and depth of issues related to self-tracking cultures.
  • Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
    A goldmine of historical and contemporary case studies with which readers are invited to visualise the complexity of self-representation practices and artefacts.
  • Your Life, Uploaded
    The book explains authors' thinking on Mincrosoft MyLifeBits project predating the "Quantified Self" and "Internet of Things" movements
Articles (3 of 8)
  • Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens (Wired)
    The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
  • The Data-Driven Life (NYTimes)
    What happens when technology can analyze every quotidian thing that happened to you today.
  • As We May Think
    Visionary article that explicates a desire for a sort of collective memory machine with concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would initiate knowledge explosion
Scientific Papers (1 of 3)