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'Opening Up the Mobile Technical Objects of Data Capitalism' Workshop by Dr Jennifer Pybus, Dr Mark Coté, Orange Clay (Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London)
No full textWe have become habituated to the unprecedented valuation of our personal data. This new logic of accumulation based on the subsumption of life itself, requires the continuous transformation of sociality into finely granulated data points that can be brought together by a range of different actors. Consequently, we are seeing the rise of ‘adtech’ or ‘martech’: umbrella terms for different technologies and third parties who are enabling the intensification of personalised analytics and other such tools to micro-target consumers. Today’s workshop will contextualise this new form of data capitalism or ‘nudge politics’ by using our mobiles and the apps that we download as our object of study. In so doing, we will consider the following: 1) What are the material building blocks for datafication on our mobile devices? Or put another way, what are the technical components that allow our personal data to flow from the applications that we use? And 2) How can we understand and map these adtech ecosystems made up of trackers and third parties, directly responsible for facilitating the movement of our personal data from our devices?
Drawing on our funded research at King’s College London, which takes an interdisciplinary methodological approach to social and cultural dimensions of Big Data, we will examine android-permissions, the infrastructure behind processes of datafication on mobile devices. In so doing, we will closely examine and contextualise the research platform we have developed: Manifest Destiny--a database of over 3000 different android manifests from various applications in the Google Play Store. By the end, participants will have a clearer understanding of:
- What permissions and trackers are, how they relate to the Android API and how they are used to access data on mobile devices;
- The significant differences between the permissions used on social media applications vs other applications i.e. newspapers, games, trackers (step, sports, health);
- What the mobile tracker ecosystem looks like and how it differs from our desktops device
Learning to Immaterial Labour 2.0: MySpace and Social Networks
Full text linkWhy did News Corporation spend $580 million on MySpace, one of the fastest growing websites on the
internet? Our contention is that it contains a dynamic new source of creative power: what we call
‘immaterial labour 2.0’. MySpace is where (mostly) youth ‘learn’ to expand their cultural and
communicative capacities by constructing online subjectivities in an open-ended process of becoming.
The labour performed therein is one of modulation and variation in the networked formations that result
in an exponential expansion of discrete nodes of both affect and affinity and of potential surplus value.
We present immaterial labour 2.0 as an ambivalent modality of both biopower and biopolitical
production, and as an exemplar of the paradigm shift underway in our interface with popular culture,
media, and information and communication technology. By recalling Dallas Smythe’s ‘audience
commodity’ we contrast the ‘producibility’ of subjects in relation to broadcast media with the
‘productivity’ of immaterial labour 2.0 in social networks like MySpace
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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