The document discusses the modern phenomena of data serfdom, where individuals are beholden to large technology companies that collect and utilize their personal data. It describes two appealing aspects of data serfdom - the promise of becoming one's own "Data Lord" by accumulating and leveraging their online profile, and the promise of self-revelation by analyzing the data collected about oneself. However, it notes that the asynchronicity between one's lived experiences and their "Data Self" online is increasing, calling into question the sustainability of the second promise.
My presentation for Theorizing the Web 2013, delivered on 2 March 2013 in New York. Slides 3 and 4 have some ghost writing and I'm not sure why- some sort of uploading glitch. Slide 20 is supposed to be a video clip, which could not be uploaded, you can find here: http://youtu.be/tnzdD5_zwxg If you want the uncorrupted slides, email me at jantleyATgmailDOTcom.
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
My presentation for Theorizing the Web 2013, delivered on 2 March 2013 in New York. Slides 3 and 4 have some ghost writing and I'm not sure why- some sort of uploading glitch. Slide 20 is supposed to be a video clip, which could not be uploaded, you can find here: http://youtu.be/tnzdD5_zwxg If you want the uncorrupted slides, email me at jantleyATgmailDOTcom.
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
Intelligence, Insight, and the role of Scale: Data stories from the business ...Paul Miller
A presentation to the IDCC 2013 conference in Amsterdam, 15 January 2013.
The presentation looks at the growing use of data in business, science, and everyday life, and asks whether or not we always need the scale encouraged by Big Data enthusiasts.
The Future of Marketing: Make Things People Want or Make People Want Things?John V Willshire
Why the future of marketing depends on rebalancing our choice between creating demand, or exploting demand. Make People Want Things, or Make Things People Want?
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA Thomas Wendt
This presentation introduces a phenomenological understanding of how information organization evolved from modernism to postmodernism to...whatever era we're in now. It is based on a paper published in the Journal of Information Architecture and first presented at the Information Architecture Summit 2014.
On how we turn into 100% converged personality. Online-offline is one. And we don't just project our identity - we create online.
Work-Personal is one.
Holistic view - Taylorism is gone!
Intelligence, Insight, and the role of Scale: Data stories from the business ...Paul Miller
A presentation to the IDCC 2013 conference in Amsterdam, 15 January 2013.
The presentation looks at the growing use of data in business, science, and everyday life, and asks whether or not we always need the scale encouraged by Big Data enthusiasts.
The Future of Marketing: Make Things People Want or Make People Want Things?John V Willshire
Why the future of marketing depends on rebalancing our choice between creating demand, or exploting demand. Make People Want Things, or Make Things People Want?
Information Cartilage: Context, Intelligent Systems, and IA Thomas Wendt
This presentation introduces a phenomenological understanding of how information organization evolved from modernism to postmodernism to...whatever era we're in now. It is based on a paper published in the Journal of Information Architecture and first presented at the Information Architecture Summit 2014.
On how we turn into 100% converged personality. Online-offline is one. And we don't just project our identity - we create online.
Work-Personal is one.
Holistic view - Taylorism is gone!
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Data Serfdom in the Modern Age: Constructing a New Feudal Order - Jeremy Antley
1. Data Serfdom in the Modern Age:
Creating a Neo-Feudal Order
Jeremy Antley -- peasantmuse.com
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2. i.r. Shipmaster Lana
Jeremy King, “The Nationalization of East
“
Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and
Beyond”
1879 Statue, built in Budejovice
(slavic/germanic language border)
1917 became Czech symbol, 1942 Nazi
symbol, taken down by Communists and
returned in 1989
How did so many interpretations of one
man's life come to the fore so often?
Interpretation of the Data Self.
(actually it’s Pushkin)
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3. And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
- Percy Byssey Shelley, 1818
Depiction of Ancient Data Self.
Note the lack of data about Ozy.
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4. The Documentary Drive and the
creation of the modern Data Self
- Hinged on getting people to accept asynchronicity
of Textual Dualism
- Extension of the rational, enlightenment quest to know reality
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6. No longer just a data self issue, but
also a data serf issue.
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7.
8. Dual Aspects of Data Serfdom,
or why we toil for the Data Lords
First Aspect: Promise of becoming your own Data Lord.
[Most appealing]
Second Aspect: Promise of revealing to yourself a
reality you didn’t know existed. Verisimilitude is
revealed through the data self. [Most sustaining]
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9. “But while we wait for a standard format, an open API, or really
any semblance of symbiosis in this industry, I think it’s important
to remember that my data is my data. It doesn’t belong to a
bracelet, or an app, or a company. While we wait for these
services to evolve, we shouldn’t have to wait to access the
data that’s tracked about our bodies.” (emphasis mine)
- Paul Miller, Body Request: give me back my Fitness Data
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10. Dual Aspects of Data Serfdom,
or why we toil for the Data Lords
First Aspect: Promise of becoming your own Data Lord.
[Most appealing]
Second Aspect: Promise of revealing to yourself a
reality you didn’t know existed. Verisimilitude is
revealed through the data self. [Most sustaining]
@jsantley #b2
13. "Stacks. In 2012 it made less and less sense to talk
about "the Internet," "the PC business,"
"telephones," "Silicon Valley," or "the media," and
much more sense to just study Google, Apple,
Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. These big five
American vertically organized silos are re-making
the world in their image."
- Bruce Sterling
"Your technology will work perfectly within the silo
and with an individual stacks's (temporary) allies.
But it will be perfectly broken at the interfaces
between itself and its competitors."
- Alexis Madrigal
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21. Taken from actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com
This shift, from a book of faces to an indexed catalogue of varying
living and non-living objects, means Facebook can update me on
things as well as people...It’s a total deconstruction of my
augmented life.
- David Banks, First Impressions of Graph Search
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22. Why does the data self, much less
data serfdom, remain so appealing?
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23. Social media systematically efface the
distinctions between forms of attention,
positing it as uniformly positive and thus
universally desirable. They do a poor job of
allowing us to calibrate our exposure, which
is always theoretically infinite despite
whatever temporary barrier privacy settings
erect. Their entire logic militates against it.
That sort of attention constitutes us as a
particular kind of sharing subject, confirming
that we are “being ourselves” when we
produce data, validating the primacy of
documents over immediate lived
experience. (emphasis mine)
- Rob Horning, Hi Haters!
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24. Dual Aspects of Data Serfdom,
or why we toil for the Data Lords
First Aspect: Promise of becoming your own Data Lord.
[Most appealing]
Second Aspect: Promise of revealing to yourself a
reality you didn’t know existed. Verisimilitude is
revealed through the data self. [Most sustaining]
@jsantley #b2
25. First Aspect: Promise of becoming your own Data Lord. --->
This is augmented. But will acceptance ameliorate the crisis
encountered below?
Second Aspect: Promise of revealing to yourself a reality you
didn’t know existed. ---> This is in crisis. Asynchronicity is high.
People can detect signs of ‘Ossified Self’.
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27. First Aspect: Promise of becoming your own Data Lord. --->
This is mostly removed. Exists now as a form of favoritism, a
currency of ephemeral nostalgia. Bondage remains.
Second Aspect: Promise of revealing to yourself a reality
you didn’t know existed. ---> This is mostly removed. Lived
Self freed from constraints of Data Self. Collection
continues.
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