Data Subjects 2021 @ ddinf Aarhus

# Data Subjects 2021 @ ddinf Aarhus [![](https://i.imgur.com/RH3QLAN.jpg)](https://testkammer.com/2020/10/19/fragmants-2019/) ## 🤖 General information **[click for Covid19-related information*](https://hackmd.io/@xpablov/rk7zKDgXP)** **Instructor**: Pablo Velasco // pvelasco@cc.au.dk // https://pablov.me/ Office: 5347 (Wiener building) room 117 :::info **LECTURE** Time: **Tuesdays 12.00-14.00** Location: ~~5520-112~~ online **WORKSHOPS (hold)** Time: **Fridays 13.00-15.00** Location: ~~5008-127~~ online ::: * Public course catalogue: [english](https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en/course/101579/Data-Subjects) / [danish](https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/da/course/101579/Data-Subjects) * Curriculum information (see 2nd Semester “Data Subjects” Exam details/Prøvedetaljer): [english](https://eddiprod.au.dk/EDDI/webservices/DokOrdningService.cfc?method=visGodkendtOrdning&dokOrdningId=15914&sprog=en) / [danish](https://eddiprod.au.dk/EDDI/webservices/DokOrdningService.cfc?method=visGodkendtOrdning&dokOrdningId=13813&sprog=da) ### What is this course about? > The course focuses on the individual as a **user and producer of data**, **but also as** **shaped by data**. The course focuses on the various practices and technologies by which we as individual persons produce data and **how data shapes our understanding of ourselves** and our subjectivity and affects how we live. > > By focusing on the use practices of devices and technologies such as **social media, mobile devices, apps, geolocation, sensors, state governed and private information systems** etc., **the students will learn to investigate and analyse these practices and their consequences for the subjectivity** of the user. The students will explore phenomena and technologies such as **filter bubbles, echo chambers, recommender systems, quantified self, tracking, data doubles, surveillance and dataveillance**. ### 🛠️ Assignments ## ø [Uncharted Data](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/S19HeAAf_) ### 🔥 LINKS FOR THE COURSE :::success * Course home: https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/syllabus * Readings folder: [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zlaZGfJMnn2je5yX8-6tMmj6tqcd2n_z?usp=sharing) (please let me know if files are missing) * Groups pad: [here](https://aarhusuniversitet-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/au615724_uni_au_dk/EWDZf5Bm5mhOnMJXOAJEf1ABWsO7eZ4k3uFaUETXfPLI3w?e=LNzg62) ::: **No materials are strictly required for the course, however it is recommended**: * A [HackMD](https://hackmd.io) account (Markdown Syntax guide: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax) * A [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com) account (or Github, if you already have it) ## 💯 Exam Exam page [here](https://hackmd.io/Cl35TSufS0S8BKzcRf8VWQ) ## 📚 Bibliography Bibliography page [here](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/HkQ_pMt-d) ## 📅 Calendar Calendar may be subject to changes, including readings. Remember to double check. | **W** | **DATE** | **SESSION/TOPICS** | **READINGS/ACTIVITIES** | | :---: | :------: | :-------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 05 | 02 feb | **1. [Introductory session](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/SJmJJ1_Zd)** | ☛ Iliadis, A., & Russo, F. (2016). Critical data studies: An introduction. Big Data & Society, 3(2). ☛ Goriunova, O. (2019). The Digital Subject: People as Data as Persons. Theory, Culture & Society, 36(6), 125–145. ☛ Suggested: Radiolab '[Who Am I](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91496-who-am-i)' (*podcast*) | | | 05 feb | *Workshop*: Testing Mozilla hubs | | | 06 | 09 feb | **2. [The modern subject](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/H1NBJJO-O)** | ☛ Foucault, M. (1982). The Subject and Power. Critical Inquiry, 8(4), 777–795. (20 p.) ☛ Krasmann, S. (2017). Imagining Foucault. On the digital subject and “visual citizenship.” Foucault Studies, 10–26. (17 p.) | | | 12 feb | *Workshop*: [What remains of…](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lU9am_4=/) | | | 07 | 16 feb | **3. [Digital identities](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/ByAqxy_-_)** | ☛ Smith, S., & Watson, J. (2014). Virtually Me: A Toolbox about Online Self-Presentation. In A. Poletti & J. Rak (Eds.), Identity technologies: Constructing the self online. The University of Wisconsin Press. ☛ Bruns, A. (2006). Towards Produsage: Futures for User-Led Content Production. In C. Ess, F. Sudweeks, & H. Hrachovec (Eds.), Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (pp. 275–284). School of Information Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/4863/ ☛ Bruns, A. (2009). From Prosumer to Produser: Understanding User-Led Content Creation. Transforming Audiences 2009, London. (Slides [here](https://www.slideshare.net/Snurb/from-prosumer-to-produser-understanding-userled-content-creation))| | | 19 feb | *Workshop*: [Testing GIT + gitlab server](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/r1cgzfTZO) | ☛ Suggested: Borges. Funes, the memorious (short story) | | 08 | 23 feb | **4. [The quantified self](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/rJf8IObMu)** | ☛ Lupton, D. (2016). The quantified self. John Wiley & Sons. (**~~Introduction~~ Chapter 1: Know Thyself**) ☛ Hynnä, K., Lehto, M., & Paasonen, S. (2019). Affective Body Politics of Social Media. Social Media + Society, 5(4) | | | 26 feb | *Workshop*: [Data (re)quest](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lSO55pE=/) Guest: Rasmus Raspel | ☛ Watch the [Quantified Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI75kMqctik) (Ajana 2017) short film, if you haven't | | 09 | 02 mar | **5. [Biopolitical subject](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/SyxzW39fO)** | ☛ Cheney-Lippold, J. (2017). We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves. New York: NYU Press. [Intro — 36 pages] ☛ Pasquinelli, M. (2015). Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine. Theory, Culture & Society, 32(3), 49–68 | | | 05 mar | *Workshop* | | | 10 | 09 mar | **6. [The digital citizen](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/ryKUDJEQO)** | ☛ Ruppert, E. (2013). Not Just Another Database: The Transactions that Enact Young Offenders. Computational Culture, 1–13. ☛ Currie, M., Paris, B. S., Pasquetto, I., & Pierre, J. (2016). The conundrum of police officer-involved homicides: Counter-data in Los Angeles County. Big Data & Society, 3(2). ☛ Zhang, Ch. (2020, September 30). [The Epistemic Production of “Non-Western Immigrants” in Denmark](https://thedisorderofthings.com/2020/09/30/the-epistemic-production-of-non-western-immigrants-in-denmark/). The Disorder Of Things | | | 12 mar | *Workshop*: [Using p5.js](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/BkNXPdwmd) | | | 11 | 16 mar | **7. [Situated subjects I: the south](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lPLb3Lg=/)** *Guest*: [Gabriel Pereira](https://www.gabrielpereira.net/) | ☛ Pereira, G., Bojczuk, I., & Parks, L. (2020)[ WhatsApp Disruptions in Brazil: A content analysis of user and news media responses, 2015-2018](https://mediarxiv.org/k2hjv/). Global Media and Communication. ☛ Kotliar, D. M. (2020). Data orientalism: On the algorithmic construction of the non-Western other. Theory and Society. ☛ Lewis, K. (2015). Three fallacies of digital footprints. Big Data & Society, 2(2). | | | 19 mar | *Workshop* | | | 12 | 23 mar | **8. [The subject of surveillance capitalism](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/Bk4iKkIEO)** | ☛ Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. PublicAffairs. (**CH. 3 “The Discovery of Behavioral Surplus”**) ☛ Keller, F. B., Schoch, D., Stier, S., & Yang, J. (n.d.). Political astroturﬁng across the world. 11. ☛ Clarke, R. (2019). Risks inherent in the digital surveillance economy: A research agenda. Journal of Information Technology, 34(1), 59–80. | | | 26 mar | [*Workshop*](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/r1YjINs4d) | | | 13 | | 🥚🐇 | | | | | 🥚🐇 | | 14 | 06 apr | **9. [Situated subjects II: the alt](https://hackmd.io/@dsub21/ByWl29OSu)** | ☛ Tuters, M. & Hagen, S. (2018).[ Who are (((they)))?: On Online Hate, Tasteless Transgression, and Memetic Versatility.](https://oilab.eu/who-are-they-on-online-hate-tasteless-transgression-and-memetic-versatility/) [17 min read] ☛ [Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner. (2019, January 1). Harper’s Magazine. https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/ ☛ Bechmann, A., & Nielbo, K. L. (2018). Are We Exposed to the Same “News” in the News Feed?: An empirical analysis of filter bubbles as information similarity for Danish Facebook users. Digital Journalism, 6(8), 990–1002. | | | 09 apr | *Workshop*: [Feels good man](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lKhW8SY=/) | | | 15 | 13 apr | **10. [Unruly & narrated subjects](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lKKkvTg=/)** | ☛ Lynch, C. R. (2020). Unruly digital subjects: Social entanglements, identity, and the politics of technological expertise. Digital Geography and Society, 1, 100001. ☛ Jacobsen, B. N. (2020). Algorithms and the narration of past selves. Information, Communication & Society, 1–16. ☛ Dourish, P., & Gómez Cruz, E. (2018). Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data. Big Data & Society, 5(2). | | | 16 apr | *Workshop* | | | 16 | 20 apr | **11. [The posthuman](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lIiSY4o=/)** | ☛ Lury, C., & Day, S. (2019). Algorithmic Personalization as a Mode of Individuation. Theory, Culture & Society, 36(2), 17–37. ☛ Wark, S. (2019). The subject of circulation: On the digital subject’s technical individuations. Subjectivity, 12(1), 65–81. ☛ Hacking, I. (1986). Making up people.| | | 23 apr | *[Workshop: Making up people](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lIEoLOM=/)* | 17 | 27 apr | **12. [Situated subjects III: the organic other(s)](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lI7-tOo=/)** *Guest*: [Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics](https://www.ribl.org/) | ☛ Tavares, Paulo. 2018. ‘In the Forest Ruins’. In Superhumanity: Design of the Self, edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley, 1st edition. New York, NY: e-flux. ☛ Shaw, Debra Benita. 2011. ‘Technonature/Culture’. In Technoculture: The Key Concepts. Oxford ; New York: Routledge. ☛ Coccia, Emanuele. 2018. ‘Prologue’. In The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, 1st edition. Medford, MA: Polity. | | | 30 apr | :pray: :pray: :pray: | (no workshop) | | 18 | 04 may | **13. [Situated subjects IV: the technical other(s)](https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lGJfPAw=/ )** | ☛ Hayles, N. K. (2017). Unthought: The power of the cognitive nonconscious. The University of Chicago Press. (**CHAPTER 1 : Nonconscious cognitions: humans and other**) ☛ Parisi, Luciana. 2015. ‘Instrumental Reason, Algorithmic Capitalism’. In Alleys of Your Mind, edited by Matteo Pasquinelli. Lüneburg: meson press. ☛ Watch [Karl Friston's Embodied Cognition ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0JnjgCO3o) (full paper [here](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00237/full), if you're curious). | | | 07 may | *Workshop* | Presentations of Uncharted Data I (groups 1-5) | | 19 | 11 may | **14. Final session** | Presentations of Uncharted Data II (groups 6-8) | | | | 28 May | Exam hand out | *Exam dates subject to change* | | | 04 Jun | Exam submission | *Exam dates subject to change* |  ## 📃 Academic regulation ### Key excerpts from [academic regulation](https://eddiprod.au.dk/EDDI/webservices/DokOrdningService.cfc?method=visGodkendtOrdning&dokOrdningId=15914&sprog=en): #### Academic objectives In the evaluation of the student’s performance, emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student is able to: Knowledge: - describe and discuss theories, concepts and methods for investigating the role of data in relation to the formation of the subject - critically reflect on the relation between data and subjectivity. Skills: - analyse and discuss the relation between data and subjectivity in general and in specific cases - communicate about the relation between data and subjectivity in general and in specific cases. Competences: - independently plan and execute studies of data and subjectivity in specific cases. <style> </style>