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Here’s the data I collected about myself over the last year: daily word count on my book manuscript, written on index cards, starting March 25 and stopping today.
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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” […]

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
• […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]