1. On an average day, what data do you create (intentionally or unintentionally?
notes, email, txt, receipts, homework, financial data, to-do lists, comments, status updates, tags, photos, phone calls, videos, playlist; Google Analytics (log of your activity), usage stats, logins, card swipes, Bruin card, blog, cell tower you used, wifi network registered, cookies, search history, papers, tweets, facebook updates,
2. What interface do you use to input it? (word processing program? a diary? your phone?)
phones, computers, paper, card readers, camera,
3. Finally, where is that data stored?
servers everywhere, anywhere -- "the machine"; in your paper notebook; or on your harddrive. exception: Phone calls (probably not stored); sim chip; in our minds.
4. What's the relationship between you and your data? Ie, "extension" of you or your sensory capacities?
Marshall McLuhan: Famous definition of "media" as extension of ourselves.
ARE YOU YOUR DATA?! My sense of self is connected to interface/media that allow me to share and receive data.
Can you truly de-link? Would you want to?
MATRIX -- everyone is plugged in, omnipresent, omniscient, nothing can escape it, the world is code/data/information.
The Cloud = the Matrix = the "Machine"
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For unintentionally created data, I remembered this one website that guesses your gender based on your browsing history. Your browser saves which pages you visit, and this person analyzed if more men or more women visit particular sites.
ReplyDeleteThe details are on this page, and there's a button to see if they can guess your gender correctly (it won't auto-run if you're paranoid :P )
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/
A little more ominous version is here, which just tells you what sites you have visited.
http://www.whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/