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]]> 35770de7ec2bc36a98da6cada36accb9 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=274 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:16:01 -0500

]]> 71aa1ff2455846862e95106fe192f7d5 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=258 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:25:47 -0500 Introduction
• technological redlining and algorithmic oppression
• big data and algorithms are anything but benign, neutral, or objective
• “glitches” don’t suggest that the “organizing logics of the web” […]

]]> 831af6c08a35d7d8cd99f6abdeef57b2 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=235 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:25:41 -0500 3. Homelessness on Skid Row
• coordinated entry system: prioritization and “housing first” (vs. “housing readiness” 92–93)
• VI-SPDAT: Vulnerability Index—Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool
• […]

]]> fff9feadd5dcac12eb0283e70e93e36f Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=222 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 23:34:33 -0500 Introduction
• d-order: warrantless search of provider for who, when, and where information, meta-data.
• third-party doctrine: individuals “relinquish reasonable expectation of privacy when they transact via […]

]]> 323252ee9474928bd9ddf32a8cb4424b Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=205 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:28:03 -0500

]]> 6f9b1b6bf83f1ff4952a96690d88d326 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=199 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 01:22:29 -0500 Some choices for your final projects:
• A final paper
• A data project
• Something experimental

By next week, send me a proposal:
Typed, about a page, with a tentative title.
Your proposal should inclu […]

]]> 9b81ff9ff747561f033d6647a3f461f2 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=196 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:46:44 -0500

]]> fd4c5449ca70d0d98ab63d28ca60324b Kevin L. Ferguson commented on the post, Michelle Alexander weighs in on WM(ath)Ds, on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/09/michelle-alexander-weighs-in-on-wmathds/#comment-22 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 22:28:21 -0500 Oh, very timely. Thanks for the link….

]]> c04a44083c4e259e882ce21833a797b8 Kevin L. Ferguson commented on the post, Thoughts on Compression, on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/11/thoughts-on-compression/#comment-21 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 22:25:22 -0500 Oh the idea of “poor image” is interesting, especially considering the circulation of images on the internet, which often get copied and screenshotted in a way that reduces quality without necessarily compressing […]

]]> d1777c4b4c68008ce7fd2ff86877b1eb Kevin L. Ferguson commented on the post, network latency, on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/11/03/network-latency/#comment-20 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:39:08 -0500 The four millisecond advantage is a great example of the “loop” that Starosielski describes: where increased speeds lead to increased demand and uses, leading to . . . need for more speed.

]]> ef58e9d195c5af01b8e06c63b2040704 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=161 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:25:22 -0400 Introduction
• signal traffic
• “the content and form of contemporary media . . . are shaped in relation to the properties and locations of these distribution systems” (1).
• how content moves and how movem […]

]]> 2b5e3b9b51d1fe8e7e7d9365d7052991 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=145 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:12:19 -0400 Platform Capitalism
• digital economy: (1) most dynamic sector, (2) systematically important, (3) presented as an ideal
• what does it mean to live in a knowledge economy? (22)
• how does data [“dat […]

]]> 3391172a6b3d5b7aa5a3a48c9ab33b49 Erin Spampinato's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/529031/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:15:59 -0400 38fc4d78347e8e245ba7eff91e970859 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=133 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:27:14 -0400 Introduction
• “Weapons of Math Destruction” WMDs
• “value-added modeling” algorithm and feedback loops
• “statistical systems require feedback”
• “Ill-conceived mathematical models now micromanage the economy […]

]]> aef2e697448af551bd4cc6372f45c7ff Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=115 Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:06:50 -0400 “It’s Not an Intruder. It’s Alexa Asserting Her Independence.
Amazon’s Echo device and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Home can handle a growing array of tasks—they are also freaking people out.”

Amazon Ditches A […]

]]> 3bcd6a2ffcf7f16c59a457be5fd6677b Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=112 Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:49:52 -0400 eeek, I keep forgetting to share this project with you all:

]]> 5c5f0b6ed66e3d9e39d50b67e0ba85fa Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=108 Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:43:35 -0400 Introduction
• Personalization vs. democracy?
• Google meant to “tell us what we should be doing next”
• filter bubble: alone in it, invisible, not chosen
• search algorithms construct theories of self
• […]

]]> 130b9f13c49275a96e36b010674e68ea Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=102 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:24:37 -0400 Introduction

“Three large areas of human concern and conduct” (2):
• us
• the world
• knowledge
Is Google evil?
public failure: “public institutions are relieved of pressure to perform their tasks […]

]]> 5363f5252e211ae0b3282c9eb648097d Kevin L. Ferguson commented on the post, This popped up today., on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/02/this-popped-up-today/#comment-17 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:02:44 -0400 interesting! no doubt the increased access to data allows for this manipulation as well as its discovery?

]]> e5bd13db56e27bec8af8bac0245fdf13 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=71 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:33:00 -0400 Datafication
Quantifying the world
• double-entry bookkeeping, math, navigation
When words become data
• content vs. data | digitizing content vs. datafying content
When location becomes data
• GPS, longi […]

]]> b6d9e905e6d6cfb143519d7ef52aff6d Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=56 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:41:09 -0400 Reconsider what we consider “data.”

Bodies
Words
Pictures

The search for information is information.
Google searches provide a unique insight into “human psyche.”

What was the […]

]]> 129290dbac6a2925c4f2f29d008a9922 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=53 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 21:51:16 -0400 “…That’s just the beginning, though. 23andMe reserves the right to use your personal information—including your genome—to inform you about events and to try to sell you products and services. There is a much […]

]]> 97e28f54efe2a5770cedd86dca7263b8 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=33 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:26:47 -0400 . . . Initially, Yahoo mined users’ emails in part to discover products they bought through receipts from e-commerce companies such asAmazon.com Inc., people familiar with the practice said. Yahoo salespeople tol […]

]]> 1e32be0a12915fa41b9eed0af0944aaf Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=24 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:53:08 -0400 “A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle to a companion to pick up some Red […]

]]> f828942cab8edfd2e1bd2d1465ee2b31 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Marilynn Johnson https://johnson.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=510 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:13:08 -0400

]]> 573052eb037d3ea5e96f8b30d97d6e77 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=198 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 02:35:55 -0400 The Biltmore Hotel was constructed on 43rd Street and Madison Avenue in 1913 using a steel frame and masonry cladding. It was built across the street from Grand Central Terminal by the New York Central […]

]]> d06dd2a3d9fdb4db7c7a1bbb7aad72eb Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:41:37 -0400 Hello everyone, and welcome to the class blog for DATA 74000: Data, Place, and Society. Here’s what you should do first:

1) If you have not done so for another class, sign up for a Commons account (you do no […]

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]]> c878f480d30b5e80ece96214f381eff3 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=96 Tue, 15 May 2018 23:47:22 -0400 726698ebc0d6f45757a2a21d24c2e6f6 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=94 Tue, 15 May 2018 23:45:42 -0400 Map of Edith Wharton’s New York (Embed Google Map)

Map of Edith Wharton’s New York (Leaflet Maps Marker)

]]> bddfe5178d65ed39edf29b51a8588d2f Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=70 Tue, 15 May 2018 22:32:57 -0400 Michelle Cliff’s Kingston
No Telephone to Heaven, 1987

 

]]> 0e8e2c5a7264bf17dc7835faa0d22de5 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=61 Tue, 15 May 2018 22:23:27 -0400 Jean Rhys’s London
New Year’s Day, 1934

 

Virginia Woolf’s London
Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

 

 

]]> 92a3c975f96a6325c3cef63f147f1ab7 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=53 Tue, 15 May 2018 22:05:24 -0400 Nella Larsen’s New York
New Year’s Day, 1929

 

Edith Wharton’s New York
New Year’s Day, 1924

 

Anzia Yezierska’s New York
New Year’s Day, 1925

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New Yo […]

]]> aa2d64075224894f5382082b22e6eb57 Kevin L. Ferguson changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/491826/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:04:39 -0500 2afc7696726a2ee35ea3dbab26b24974 Kevin L. Ferguson started the topic Job: Emerging Technologies and Digital Scholarship Librarian / Queens College in the forum Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cunydhi/forum/topic/job-emerging-technologies-and-digital-scholarship-librarian-queens-college/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:51:05 -0500 Benjamin Rosenthal Library at Queens College, CUNY is hiring a new position of Emerging Technologies and Digital Scholarship Librarian (Assistant Professor or Instructor).

We’re looking for a creative, collaborative person to help bring together and lead a number of digital initiatives in the library, which is being reimagined in innovative…[Read more]

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Prologue
First Section

There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown […]

]]> 591028125e0ace65fd310b516baf6c55 Philosophy Editor wrote a new post on the site Reading Cities https://readcities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=24 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 22:42:54 -0500 For information on how to sign up for and use the Commons read the following CUNY-Commons_Documentation. Also watch the below YouTube videos for more information on how to add media and geographical locations to […]

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Reading Cities (RC) is a digitally augmented text platform that serves teachers and students of modern literature. At the most basic level, RC acts as an enhancement of print and ebook versions of modernist […]

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