## <span class="censor">Data Subjects 2021 <br>// S01: Introductory session</span>
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Pablo Velasco // Information Studies // [pablov.me](https://pablov.me)
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## Plan for the day:
* Class logistics (channels, exam, etc)
* What's critical about Critical Data Studies?
* Goriunovas' digital subject
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# Logistics
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# The 🐘 in the zoom
## Zoom
* open-camera policy
* market mode: open-mic policy (unless in noisy areas)
## Discord
* record of conversations, links, etc
* new channels as we need them
* 20% faster answers! (for easy questions)
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## Groups and exam
Central point of information in our [hackmd homepage](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/syllabus) (or "syllabus" in Blackboard). Slides can also be found on the calendar section (slides can be downloaded as pdfs, too)
### [Groups](https://aarhusuniversitet-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/au615724_uni_au_dk/EWDZf5Bm5mhOnMJXOAJEf1ABWsO7eZ4k3uFaUETXfPLI3w?e=LNzg62)
### Exam
* 7-day take-home
* can be done in groups or individually
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***Who am I?***
self, identity, subject
***Where am I?***
body, mirror (reflection), neurons, soul, stories
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* JAD: Right, the vocabulary of a neuron is just **on or off**.
* ROBERT: It is **only in the group that you can see the electrical outline of a thought, or ultimately of a self**. While you think of yourself as a one, even the thought "I am a one," springs from a hundred million cells connecting through a trillion synapses. And that all of this multiple activity paradoxically creates the you of this moment. **You are always plural**.
<small>Radiolab "Who am I?" https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91496-who-am-i</small>
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# *Critical* Data Studies
*What's critical about critical data studies?*
<span class="censor">Data are a form of power (...) a lack of data is another form of power (Iliadis and Ruso 2016)</span>
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### 1. Post-positivist approach
A reaction to empirical and logical positivism (which still permeates many sciences and vernacular knowledge)
Popper's (1959) *falsiability* (vs verifiability):
* impossibility of pure inductive knowledge
* skepticism towards all-explainable theories
And, a more current post-positivist important for our discussion:
Where *who are you* is relevant to develop an idea of objectivity
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<small>The Vienna circle, https://existentialcomics.com/</small>
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### 2. CDS should study *data-assemblages*
<span class="censor">the technological, political, social, and econmic apparatuses and elements that constitutes and frames the generation, circulation and deployment of data (Kitchin and Lauriault 2014, 1)</span>
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### 3. CDS attention to issues related to:
* changes in governmentality and policy
* ways in which data is *weaponized* (e.g. for social control)
* data influence on truth and objectivity
* **digital subjectivation and subjugation**
* data divide
* datactivism
* data literacy
* data justice
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### 4. Education for the *common good* (Iliadis and Lauriault 2016)
1. Identification of social data problems
2. Design of critical frameworks for addressing social data problems
3. Application of social solutions to increase data literacy
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## Goriunova's (2019) Digital Subject
* "digital subject" != "living people"
* scientific notions of identity construct digital subjects
* between critical theory and *big-data* data anlytics
* *Distance*:
## <span class="censor">A digital subject is neither an object nor its representation but a distance between the two (128)</span>
* How this *distance* is performed changes and enacts different politics
<span class="censor">the forms of production of distance, whether by neural networks, platform infrastructures, projects or other engagements are key to the generation of digital subjects (128)</span>
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<span style="font-size:4em">who are you?</span>
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