Jeroen Rijskamp
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18 September 2011, 9:18 pm
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tags: AIDS, algorithm, bloggers, Blogs, CIA, database, FBI, HIV, intelligence, lovers, loyalty card, mathematician, micro targeting, monitoring, numerati, spam, sploggers, voters, workers, workplace
Stephen Baker’s The Numerati, published in 2008, tells the story of our modern world’s “binarization;” how every individual is deduced to ones and zeroes through the trails of data we leave behind which are consequently gathered, analyzed and categorized by number crunchers, better known as data miners, in order to predict behavior. The…
Whether they are hard or soft cover, thick or thin, large or small, heavy or light, old or new, owned or borrowed – the traditional book exists in all shapes, forms and genres. The e-book lacks this spectrum of physical appearances. While the rise of the e-book as the book’s successor is often debated from an economic point…
For all those feeling nostalgic about the good old days in which search engines were not based on algorithms but actual people doing the work; your human side of the search engine is back.
On Lazytweet you can ask questions or search through a database that provides answers by other users through Twitter. Works terribly bad, and seems…
Kai Henriquez
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22 September 2008, 1:28 am
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tags: Add All, awareness, biopolitics, biopower, CCTV, communication routes, compilation, consciousness, danger, digital information, electronic technologies, facebook, Foucault, human bodies, humphreys, information technologies, jeremy bentham, metaphor, Michel Foucault, monitoring, notion, observing, panopticon, pattern recognition, physical bodies, populations, prison design, prisoners, social networking sites, surveillance, tendencies, ubiquity, warning, watching, web 2.0
The Web 2.0 application FACEBOOK analysed through FOUCAULTS PHILOSOPHIES ON SOCIETY.
WARNING|DANGER: With this knowledge a consciousness is created with which people become aware about the possibilities of people watching/observing/monitoring people, both virtually as in the real world.
