CUNY Academic Commons | Nora Carr | Friends Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ncarr/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Nora Carr's friends. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 698eff6cc9d7c272409202015e5440f3 Kevin L. Ferguson's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/819007/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:07:27 -0500 6eca42afa28b0e03dfce427f4d236972 Kevin L. Ferguson changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/819002/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:06:42 -0500 283998ab374d8f2cd4e4817d3a84e9a4 Nicole A. Rose changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/805615/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:15:45 -0500 3b94270bd0921268dd26c3d9da096827 Nicole A. Rose's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/805611/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:02:57 -0500 7c7911a682eeee5649679c6458bb9ff0 Kevin L. Ferguson changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/564491/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:30:56 -0500 b61aa7db5c66bea12f21456cf31ed80a Kevin L. Ferguson changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/564489/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 17:30:33 -0500 9489508a534a61a42893774299683b26 Kevin L. Ferguson wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=278 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:25:08 -0500 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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]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 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 […]

]]> 296f999b245e869ee276c88c93bc5396 Kevin L. Ferguson created the site Data, Place, and Society https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/511904/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:41:37 -0400 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]

]]> 2a44fb017a3cdd2b0507c324a7257e3d Kevin L. Ferguson's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/491821/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:38:56 -0500 949ebd8dcfa3a7aa776f260fc356cff9 Kevin L. Ferguson changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/483060/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:08:03 -0500 b7fd960242fb3d16f3bc7b8e7b934ac6 Kevin L. Ferguson changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/483059/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:07:12 -0500 c4fecacb3dd0ee0c78edde7b7c807943 Kevin L. Ferguson joined the group CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/483058/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:06:13 -0500 098a204cb43bfbfa5bd55aa9f5af094a Nicole A. Rose's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466448/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:57:17 -0400 00830af32d19d5cf56cd60a9fe7ff44a Kevin L. Ferguson started the topic JOB: College Assistant at Queens College in the forum Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/job-college-assistant-at-queens-college/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:54:46 -0400 Writing at Queens seeks a part-time College Assistant for 20 hours a week at $15 an hour with benefits. Writing at Queens works with faculty and students at Queens College on writing across the curriculum initiatives, including hosting faculty development workshops and supporting student blogging, our new writing studio, and other digital writing…[Read more]

]]> e6f9bc5d9200aafe611fe20cb82f863d Kevin L. Ferguson started the topic CFP-Digital Humanities and Medieval Italy in the forum Digital Humanities Initiative http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/cfp-digital-humanities-and-medieval-italy/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:13:19 -0400 Please see this CFP for a panel on Digital Humanities and Medieval Italy [the new deadline is Oct 1].

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I would very much welcome submissions for the panel that I am organizing for the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. Please see the panel description below.

A Panel Discussion on Digital Humanities and…[Read more]

]]> 715c8cd89c7bf254ee649f054b1fe599 Kevin L. Ferguson commented on the post, Reflections On Volumetric Cinema and Digital Surrealism, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/24/reflections-on-volumetric-cinema-and-digital-surrealism/#comment-110 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:39:31 -0500 I like the Salavon; I had forgotten about him. I’ve also seen similar work (maybe his?) with something like Facebook photos or headshots. And Giacometti’s a really interesting example to consider in terms of […]

]]> 5a427f46c818b1cadd6736d7b1ee778e Christopher Weimer and Erin Spampinato are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/420325/ Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:16:46 -0500 1528f3f554c1a15535f899d48efe7161 Genevieve Waite and Erin Spampinato are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/420322/ Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:16:41 -0500 bb18a395da0b99cca115b0c385e152ec Kevin L. Ferguson commented on the post, Data Project: Using CartoDB (possibly), on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/11/04/data-project-using-cartodb-possibly/#comment-39 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:11:12 -0500 I tweeted about this, but here’s an interesting map project, different than your area but perhaps inspiring: “mapping of documentary films from 500 places in Denmark, 1905-1965”

]]> 93b9150d8ee4345a2b90693b1cb2c1a2 Nicole A. Rose and Kevin L. Ferguson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/418562/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:17:01 -0400 e33f94f1286a4e7f947c1e7b97a0ea81 Genevieve Waite and Kevin L. Ferguson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/418560/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:16:58 -0400 cfa63e7fa2c6d870ba7e62a328bdd158 Christopher Weimer and Kevin L. Ferguson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/418559/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:16:56 -0400 43c37c3bc540445ae6718000362a0145 Nicole A. Rose and Nora Carr are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/418497/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:49:53 -0400 8b13c3874e91ad79811d958b95ee2ca7 Nicole A. Rose and Christopher Weimer are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/418442/ Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:05:00 -0400