Performativity of Data
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re-conceptualizing the web of data
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Presented as a Pecha Kucha at Web Science 2013 (Paris), this presentation focuses on a post-modern interpretation of "data" leveraging social theories of Goffman and Foucault.
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“It is crucial to begin asking questions about our analytic assumptions, methodological frameworks, and underlying biases embedded in this phenomenon.”
- danah boyd (2012, p. 2)
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“change the instruments, and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them.”
- George P. Landow, 2001
“[performance is] an arrangement which transforms an individual into a stage performer, the latter, in turn, being an object that can be looked at in the round and at length without offense, and looked to for engaging behavior, by those in an ‘audience’ role’” - Goffman (1974)
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Photo Credit: Jeffrey Beall (2011)CC licensed
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Image credit: @rawimage (2012)
Original MC Escher Photo credit @Adrian Marquez (2010) - CC licensed
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