# CRIT ## Martin Broholt Trans I'd like explicit feedback on the perceived viability of the project, and on possible directions for the use of assignment 3 in regards to my idea in general. Also; do I need to go deeper into the discussion of colonialism (perhaps de-colonialism?) in order for this to seem more collected? It might be a neglect without it, coming from a young, cis male white person who've lived his life in a first-world country? Do I need to put extra focus on power-relations? <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 23px;" -->  --- ### Curation || How does data colonialism feel? Throughout the semester I have dealt with the abstract and fickle concept of ‘curation’, and as an effort towards learning and building knowledge of just that,  ---- ### Data Colonialism “Data colonialism is, in essence, an emerging order for the appropriation of human life so that data can be continuously extracted from it for profit.” (Couldry & Mejias, 2019a, p. xiii)  --- ### Datafication || Data Relations I’ve engaged actively in the act of 'datafication' (Mejias & Couldry, 2019), by turning my personal spatiotemporality into computationally tangible bits and bytes, in the sense of creating GPS-points from bike-rides with the help of a phone-app, in the [first assignment](https://hackmd.io/@martinbtrans/B1BMUy8KP).  <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 28px;" --> ---- ### Datafication || Data Relations “[…] **data relations**, ways of interacting with each other and with the world facilitated by digital tools Through data relations, human life is not only annexed to capitalism but also becomes subject to continuous monitoring and surveillance” (Couldry & Mejias, 2019a, p. xiii).  --- ### The Cloud Empire || The Social Qantification Sector In [the second assignment](https://hackmd.io/@martinbtrans/BJHBDJIKv) I attempted to represent myself through a “data-selfie”, which was aggregated from multiple social networks and algorithmically treated by [“Applymagicsauce”](https://applymagicsauce.com/about-us) to project my data back at me, which made the power of ‘datafication’ more tangible.  <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 28px;" --> ---- ### The Cloud Empire || The Social Qantification Sector “As social relations are thus transformed, we see the emergence of **the Cloud Empire**, a totalizing vision and organization of business in which the dispossession of data colonialism has been naturalized and extended across all social domains” (Couldry & Mejias, 2019a, p. xiii).  “The Cloud Empire is being implemented and extended by many players but primarily by **the social quantification sector**, the industry sector devoted to the development of the infrastructure required for the extraction of profit from human life through data” (Couldry & Mejias, 2019a, p. xiii). <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 28px;" --> --- ### Creating taxonomies || Creating subjects For [the third assignment](https://hackmd.io/@martinbtrans/SJJkOy8tD) I worked with a group towards creating what can be seen as a folksonomy, as a way of dealing with taxonomies in a social setting, where we were forced to collaborate in order to reach a meaningful categorization in a Zotero library full of what we termed “Zoteronomics”, consisting of “disembodied metadata”.  <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 28px;" --> ---- ### Folksonomy || Social or algorithmic categorization? "The final turn of the data relations spiral comes when categorizations derived from the processing of your data are applied back onto you, the human subject, from whom the data was derived, whether or not you are identified by name. Data subjects often attempt to modulate their behavior in order to influence the algorithm that they believe is categorizing them" (Couldry & Mejias, 2019a, pp. 29-30).  <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 30px;" --> --- ### Situated Knowledges and STS in the back of the mind Framing this entire process in the light of Donna Haraway’s concept of “situated knowledge”, which informs us that knowledge is always situated and “[a]ccounts of a ‘real’ world do not, then, depend on a logic of ‘discovery’ but on a power-charged social relation of ‘conversation’” (Haraway, 1988), tying similarities to what the field of STS has stood for, for long; an understanding towards knowledge being socially produced (Bruun Jensen, 2007) with the statement that “[s]ituated knowledges require that the object of knowledge be pictured as an actor or agent, not as a […] resource” (Haraway, 1988, p.592). <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 24px;" -->  --- ### The plan as is What I want to do in this part of my learning experience, is to tie the knots between the assignments as is [with minor/major corrections and work applied to it], and subjecting them to a lens of “Data Colonialism”, as proposed by Couldry & Mejias being that: “data relations enact a new form of data colonialism, normalizing the exploitation of human beings through data, just as historic colonialism appropriated territory and resources and ruled subjects for profit. Data colonialism paves the way for a new stage of capitalism whose outlines we only glimpse: the capitalization of life without limit” (Couldry & Mejias, 2019b, p.1). I want to attempt this by applying the overall concept and the isolated terms from this framework, with my own empirical experiences as described above, although I recognize that this framework is rather new at the time of writing this, and will acknowledge that the overall notion might not be considered as fitting for my personal experiences of curating. <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 28px;" --> ---- ### Bibliography * Bruun Jensen, C., Lauritsen, P., & Olesen, F. (Eds.). (2007). Introduktion til STS: Science, technology, society. Hans Reitzel. * Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2019a). The costs of connection: How data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism. Stanford University Press. * Couldry, N., & Mejias, U. A. (2019b). Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject. Television & New Media, 20(4), 336–349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476418796632 * Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575. https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066 * Mejias, U. A., & Couldry, N. (2019). Datafication. Internet Policy Review, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2019.4.1428 * University of Cambridge: The Psychometrics Centre. (n.d.). Apply Magic Sauce—Prediction API. Apply Magic Sauce. Retrieved October 1, 2020, from https://applymagicsauce.com/about-us <!-- .slide: style="font-size: 24px;" -->