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NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group. NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, reply privately, and much more It's free, a project of public interest group Fairness.com LLC.
#collaboration#comment#discussion#annotation
·nowcomment.com·
NowComment
Privacy in Public – An Exhibit on Data Privacy Hosted by New York City's Public Libraries
Privacy in Public – An Exhibit on Data Privacy Hosted by New York City's Public Libraries
The online world has shifted from a space of public discourse to one that’s increasingly fueled by access to our secrets, whether we are aware of it or not. What does it mean to participate on the web when so much of our personal data is used without our consent?  Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, and Queens Library joined together to host Privacy in Public, an exhibit that interrogated what it means to sacrifice our personal information for the sake of convenience.   From Saturday, December 15 through Friday, February 1, New Yorkers and their guests visted nine libraries across New York City to see new artwork that questioned our access to personal privacy in the digital age.  
#privacy#netnarr#obfuscation
·privacyinpublic.org·
Privacy in Public – An Exhibit on Data Privacy Hosted by New York City's Public Libraries
Bushwick Analytica - tegabrain
Bushwick Analytica - tegabrain
Politicians and marketers now use data and online advertising to try to change our behaviors. But why should these tools only be utilized by people in places like Washington DC, Manhattan and London? Bushwick Analytica is a series of workshops recently held at Bushwick Public Library inviting local middle schoolers to harness the power of data driven advertising and develop and promote their own targeted campaigns. These sessions delve into the inner workings of internet advertising, and the many ways that data is collected online and used to categorize us.
#advertising#tracking#netnarr
·tegabrain.com·
Bushwick Analytica - tegabrain
Bushwick Analytica lets kids design their own targeted ads
Bushwick Analytica lets kids design their own targeted ads
By now, we’ve established that the internet is terrible and targeted advertising is largely to blame. Ad networks follow us around websites and apps, profiling who we are and what we do in a quest to serve up the most effective ad at the most effective time. Thanks to Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, we’ve learned that data mining and psychological profiling can influence a lot more than just what soap we buy–it can be weaponized to reshape the democratic process itself. What can we actually do about it? For staters, we can vote. And we can show the next generation of leaders–our children–what a mess we’ve made of things. Bushwick Analytica is half art project, half education tool. Developed by Tega Brain–the same artist who brought us a dating service based on smelling someone’s clothing–and funded by the New York Libraries, Bushwick Analytica is a weekly series of workshops at Bushwick Public Library in New York where 11-year-olds design their own targeted ad campaigns.
#tracking#netnarr
·fastcompany.com·
Bushwick Analytica lets kids design their own targeted ads
Facebook Federally Charged With Enabling Housing Discrimination
Facebook Federally Charged With Enabling Housing Discrimination
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Thursday charged Facebook with discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. HUD says it believes the company was “encouraging, enabling, and causing housing discrimination through the company’s advertising platform.” Facebook allegedly allowed advertisements on its platform to exclude certain people from targeting based on categories like race, religion, sex, and disability, among other protected classes. According to HUD, Facebook is also believed to have allowed advertisers to “exclude people based upon their neighborhood by drawing a red line around those neighborhoods on a map.” Facebook ran ads for mortgages, apartments, real estate listing services, and single-family houses by real estate agents. All were able to discriminate based on very specific criteria, according to HUD. “Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement. “Using a computer to limit a person’s housing choices can be just as discriminatory as slamming a door in someone’s face.”
#netnarr#redlining
·gizmodo.com·
Facebook Federally Charged With Enabling Housing Discrimination
The Surveillance Economy
The Surveillance Economy
In her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School’s Shoshana Zuboff argues that tech companies — like Google and Facebook — collect so much personal data for profit, that they’re changing the fundamentals of our economy and way of life. And now these companies are learning to shape our behavior to better serve their business goals. Shoshana joins Manoush Zomorodi to explain what this all means for us. We then explore whether or not it’s time to end our relationship with corporate spies. OG advice columnist Dear Abby gives us some tips to start with. We chat with philosopher S. Matthew Liao. He asks if we have a moral duty to quit Facebook. Alice Marwick explains why most people won’t leave the social network. And journalist Nithin Coca tells us what it was like for him to quit both Facebook and Google. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t easy, but he has no regrets.
#podcast#surveillance#netnarr#privacy
·irlpodcast.org·
The Surveillance Economy
Storytelling with Numbers Using Data GIF Maker – Sustainable Teaching
Storytelling with Numbers Using Data GIF Maker – Sustainable Teaching
In March 2019, Google News Labs announced updates to its Data GIF Maker website. Data GIF Maker is an easy-to-use resource for making animated GIFs from small sets of data. Data GIF Maker has three tools: rectangles, circles, and a racetrack tool. Users can enter 2 or 3 data points into the rectangles tool. Circles and the racetrack tool can include up to 4 data points. The tool is perfect for depicting Electoral College results because it is exceedingly rare to find a presidential election in which more than 4 candidates received Electoral College votes. Data GIF Maker will be great for the 2020 presidential election if the large Democratic primary field narrows to 2 candidates as it did in 2016.
#animatedgif#gif#data#netnarr#ds106
·tommullaney.com·
Storytelling with Numbers Using Data GIF Maker – Sustainable Teaching
Home | Archive of Our Own
Home | Archive of Our Own
A fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. We preserve our fannish economy, values, and creative expression by protecting and nurturing our fellow fans, our work, our commentary, our history, and our identity while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans. The Archive of Our Own offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks using open-source archiving software.
#archive#fanfiction#writing#reclaim
·archiveofourown.org·
Home | Archive of Our Own
8 useful CSS tricks: Parallax images, sticky footers and more
8 useful CSS tricks: Parallax images, sticky footers and more
This article shares some of my most satisfying “ah-hah!” moments learning CSS, and I hope it can prompt some “ah-hah!” moments for you too. CSS is a unique language. At first glance, it can seem very simple. But certain effects that look simple in theory are often a little less obvious in practice. In this article, I’ll share several useful tips and tricks that represent key developments in my own journey learning CSS. This article isn’t about demonstrating how complex CSS can get. Rather, it shares several useful tricks that you’re unlikely to find in most CSS tutorials.
#css#webdesign
·medium.com·
8 useful CSS tricks: Parallax images, sticky footers and more
The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape
The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape
Brian Chirls took the approval ratings for Richard Nixon’s presidency and using sounds from The Legend of Zelda’s classic Dungeon Theme, he made a data-driven soundscape of the public perception of Nixon’s tenure in the White House.
#Audio
·kottke.org·
The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape
Wikidata:Tours - Wikidata
Wikidata:Tours - Wikidata
Wikidata Tours are interactive tutorials specifically designed for you, the new user. The tours will show you how Wikidata works and teach you how to edit and add data. Wikidata works a bit differently from a typical article-centered wiki like Wikipedia, so even if you've used a wiki before or you're coming to us from another Wikimedia project, you still might want to take a tour or two!
#wikimedia#howto#wikidata
·wikidata.org·
Wikidata:Tours - Wikidata
Meme art exhibition 'What Do You Meme?' to open in Peckham | London Evening Standard
Meme art exhibition 'What Do You Meme?' to open in Peckham | London Evening Standard
If you’ve ever spent hours laughing at memes on the internet, you don’t have to feel bad about falling into an internet vortex of Willy Wonka’s face or a frog on a bike. Memes are in fact art – or at least according to one curator, who has made an exhibition around the eclectic internet culture. What Do You Meme? will be at Holdron’s Arcade in Peckham this week, with the exhibition's curator, Maisie Post, suggesting that they are the most democratic art form that we have.
#meme#art#netnarr
·standard.co.uk·
Meme art exhibition 'What Do You Meme?' to open in Peckham | London Evening Standard
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - The New York Times
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - The New York Times
Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words. But a picture unaccompanied by words may not mean anything at all. Do pictures provide evidence? And if so, evidence of what? And, of course, the underlying question: do they tell the truth? I have beliefs about the photographs I see. Often – when they appear in books or newspapers – there are captions below them, or they are embedded in explanatory text. And even where there are no explicit captions on the page, there are captions in my mind. What I think I’m looking at. What I think the photograph is about. I have often wondered: would it be possible to look at a photograph shorn of all its context, caption-less, unconnected to current thought and ideas? It would be like stumbling on a collection of photographs in a curiosity shop – pictures of people and places that we do not recognize and know nothing about. I might imagine things about the people and places in the photographs but know nothing about them. Nothing.
#photography#truth#netnarr
·opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com·
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - The New York Times
The GIF Pronunciation Page
The GIF Pronunciation Page
The GIF graphics file format was invented by Steve Wilhite at CompuServe in 1987. In the years since, a debate has been raging as to the correct way to pronounce "GIF": like "jif" as in the peanut butter, or with a hard 'g' as in "gift" as a majority of Mac users seem to prefer. With this page I intend to clear this up once and for all...
#gif#history#netnarr
·olsenhome.com·
The GIF Pronunciation Page
How the Christchurch terrorist attack was made for social media - CNN
How the Christchurch terrorist attack was made for social media - CNN
The footage is grainy and has a video-game aesthetic. But it soon becomes terrifyingly obvious that what is being filmed here is not a work of fiction. The video, which has not been verified by CNN, appears to show an unseen attacker opening fire on worshippers in a mosque, as if they were targets in a game. It seems that the video was filmed by a perpetrator of the mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in which at least 49 people were killed and scores more injured. In a sickening angle to an already horrific story, it was live-streamed online. In fact, the entire attack seemed orchestrated for the social media age. Before it took place, a post on the anonymous message board 8chan -- a particularly lawless forum that often features racist and extremist posts -- seemed to preview the horror. It linked out to an 87-page manifesto filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideas, and directed users to a Facebook page that hosted the live stream. Posts on Twitter also appeared to herald the attack.
#netnarr
·cnn.com·
How the Christchurch terrorist attack was made for social media - CNN
The mass shooting in New Zealand was designed to spread on social media - The Verge
The mass shooting in New Zealand was designed to spread on social media - The Verge
The horrific shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was designed from the start to get attention, leveraging social media to make sure as many people as possible would hear about the deaths and the hate underpinning them. Officials have reported a “significant” number of people are dead from attacks at two mosques
#social#netnarr
·theverge.com·
The mass shooting in New Zealand was designed to spread on social media - The Verge
Sousveillance as a Response to Surveillance | David Bollier
Sousveillance as a Response to Surveillance | David Bollier
Five years ago I wrote about the concept of “sousveillance,” which was then a budding counterpoint to surveillance. Surveillance, of course, is the practice of the powerful monitoring people under their dominion, especially people who are suspects or prisoners – or today, simply citizens.  Sousveillance -- “to watch from below” – has now taken off, fueled by an explosion of miniaturized digital technologies and the far-reaching abuses of the surveillance market/state.  Mann’s larger objective here is to develop a new set of ideas for describing the social realities of “veillance” in society today, and to propose workable countermeasures to ubiquitous surveillance. It would be nice to have some empirical social science studies to validate some presumed realities, and to have the perspectives of legal scholars, civil libertarians, law enforcement and others more fully reflected here. Still, Mann’s essays are seminal in outlining a territory that urgently need to be developed. To that end, he gives us a new vocabulary for a more intelligent discussion of the subject. For example, when surveillance and sousveillance are both treated equally – a more appropriate state – one can say that there is “equiveillance.” More typically, however, there is “inequiveillance.” If there is only one party consenting to the veillance, there is “univeillance,” and if an absentee, non-participant records some or all parties while at the same time forbidding them from recording themselves, there situation can be described as “McVeillance” – the uniltateral “sensory entitlement” that many business establishments assert over their premises.
#surveillance#netnarr
·bollier.org·
Sousveillance as a Response to Surveillance | David Bollier
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.  Staying true to the open access model: it is free to stream and download, for private or public use, and maintains the most open CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons designation to ensure anyone regardless of their social, financial or political background will have access.  
#film#openaccess#copyright#academia
·paywallthemovie.com·
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Twenty.
Twenty.
But had I not written all those posts, good and bad, I wouldn’t be who I am today, which, hopefully, is a somewhat wiser person vectoring towards a better version of himself. What the site has become in its best moments — a slightly highfalutin description from the about page: “[kottke.org] covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity” — has given me a chance to “try on” hundreds of thousands of ideas, put myself into the shoes of all kinds of different thinkers & creators, meet some wonderful people (some of whom I’m lucky enough to call my friends), and engage with some of the best readers on the web (that’s you!), who regularly challenge me on and improve my understanding of countless topics and viewpoints. I had a personal realization recently: kottke.org isn’t so much a thing I’m making but a process I’m going through. A journey. A journey towards knowledge, discovery, empathy, connection, and a better way of seeing the world. Along the way, I’ve found myself and all of you. I feel so so so lucky to have had this opportunity.
#blogging#ideas
·kottke.org·
Twenty.
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
As the algorithms get more advanced — meaning they are better able to identify women and people of color, a task they have historically struggled with — legal experts and civil rights advocates are sounding the alarm on researchers’ use of photos of ordinary people. These people’s faces are being used without their consent, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them. The latest company to enter this territory was IBM, which in January released a collection of nearly a million photos that were taken from the photo hosting site Flickr and coded to describe the subjects’ appearance. IBM promoted the collection to researchers as a progressive step toward reducing bias in facial recognition. But some of the photographers whose images were included in IBM’s dataset were surprised and disconcerted when NBC News told them that their photographs had been annotated with details including facial geometry and skin tone and may be used to develop facial recognition algorithms. (NBC News obtained IBM’s dataset from a source after the company declined to share it, saying it could be used only by academic or corporate research groups.)
#flickr#privacy#surveillance#netnarr
·nbcnews.com·
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
We cannot rely on the internet to teach our children — Quartz
We cannot rely on the internet to teach our children — Quartz
However, there are limits to what digital learning technology can do, and we have to remember that great teaching has always been a primary driver of academic growth. As teachers have long understood on a gut level, if they have the opportunity to provide a student with continued personalized instruction they can instill learning alongside confidence. Using these two key strategies—individualized instruction and confidence building—teachers can help many students go from well below national average on standardized tests to the top of the score chart. Indeed, there is a steadily increasing body of evidence demonstrating how strong teaching can deliver huge impact. As Benjamin Bloom found in his paper, “The 2 Sigma Problem,” that students who receive individualized instruction typically perform two standard deviations better than those who don’t. This means they score 98% better than average.
#edtech#teaching
·qz.com·
We cannot rely on the internet to teach our children — Quartz
Photography For Kids: What Kids Learn When They’re Behind The Camera | Learning
Photography For Kids: What Kids Learn When They’re Behind The Camera | Learning
“Photography can help develop a child’s voice, vision and identity as it pertains to their family, friends and community,” says Nazareth. It can also strengthen connections between visual and other forms of expression. In Nazareth’s photo workshops, kids take lots of pictures and do lots of journaling. “Students ultimately make connections between core concepts of photography and writing such as framing, timing, focus and perspective,” she says.
#photography#storytelling
·cbc.ca·
Photography For Kids: What Kids Learn When They’re Behind The Camera | Learning
The Exploitation, Injustice, and Waste Powering Our AI
The Exploitation, Injustice, and Waste Powering Our AI
“Alexa, what time is it?” It’s a simple question that any person with a watch can answer with minimal effort. But when you ask an Amazon Echo the same question, a vast system powered by natural resources and human labor is activated to drum up the answer. As many of us reckon with Silicon Valley’s impact on the world and consider how it has upended life, work, and even democracy, we also must consider the infrastructure–and the tangible harm it can do–that usually remains hidden beneath these seemingly simple user experiences. It’s an aspect of AI that is nearly impossible to comprehend, let alone visualize, but a new map created by the AI researcher Kate Crawford and data visualization specialist Vladan Joler attempts this dizzying task anyway. Joler and Crawford met at a retreat put on by the Mozilla Foundation, and they began talking about what it would take to visualize the entire system that undergirds voice assistants, something that’s completely obscured by the simple, rounded industrial design of the Echo and its competitors. “The mineral extraction, smelting, logistics, fiber optic cables, networking, AI training, energy, and e-waste . . . it’s an almost impossible task, requiring a mind-boggling scale,” Crawford says. “So we started by drawing multiple version on butcher’s paper, and it took dozens of sheets.” From there, Joler and Crawford took a year to research every piece of the Echo’s supply chain, uncover the hidden human labor that most of us don’t think about when we query a voice assistant, and put it in historical, geological, and anthropological context.
#ai#ecology#netnarr
·medium.com·
The Exploitation, Injustice, and Waste Powering Our AI
Anatomy of an AI System
Anatomy of an AI System
A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is silently attending. A woman walks into the room, carrying a sleeping child in her arms, and she addresses the cylinder. ‘Alexa, turn on the hall lights’ The cylinder springs into life. ‘OK.’ The room lights up. The woman makes a faint nodding gesture, and carries the child upstairs. This is an interaction with Amazon’s Echo device. 3 A brief command and a response is the most common form of engagement with this consumer voice-enabled AI device. But in this fleeting moment of interaction, a vast matrix of capacities is invoked: interlaced chains of resource extraction, human labor and algorithmic processing across networks of mining, logistics, distribution, prediction and optimization. The scale of this system is almost beyond human imagining. How can we begin to see it, to grasp its immensity and complexity as a connected form? We start with an outline: an exploded view of a planetary system across three stages of birth, life and death, accompanied by an essay in 21 parts. Together, this becomes an anatomical map of a single AI system.
#ai#amazon#netnarr
·anatomyof.ai·
Anatomy of an AI System