On Knowing Too Much: Technologists´Discourses Around Online Anonymity
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Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures . ed. / Andreas Bernard; Matthias Koch; Martina Leeker. Lüneburg: meson press, 2018. p. 143-157 (Digital Culture Series ).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - On Knowing Too Much
T2 - Technologists´Discourses Around Online Anonymity
AU - Bialski, Paula
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This chapter focuses on the way technologists approach the data they collect, manage, and analyze; at times feeling they can know too much and see too much about individual users, at times feeling that they know too little, leaving them hungry for gathering more data. Based on preliminary research in San Francisco among data brokers, hackers, activists, privacy teams at large corporations, app developers, bloggers, and cryptographers, I create a typology of characters that handle data. Using the metaphor of weaving, I imagine data as threads that make up a fabric. Using this metaphor, I ask: Who collects these threads? Who gathers them, weaves them, and who cuts them? How are data gathered and treated?
AB - This chapter focuses on the way technologists approach the data they collect, manage, and analyze; at times feeling they can know too much and see too much about individual users, at times feeling that they know too little, leaving them hungry for gathering more data. Based on preliminary research in San Francisco among data brokers, hackers, activists, privacy teams at large corporations, app developers, bloggers, and cryptographers, I create a typology of characters that handle data. Using the metaphor of weaving, I imagine data as threads that make up a fabric. Using this metaphor, I ask: Who collects these threads? Who gathers them, weaves them, and who cuts them? How are data gathered and treated?
KW - Digital media
KW - Data
KW - Data Brokers
KW - Silicon Valley
KW - Data Analysis
KW - Ethnography
KW - Discourse Mapping
UR - http://meson.press/books/non-knowledge-and-digital-cultures/
UR - http://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/9783957961266-Non-Knowledge.pdf
U2 - 10.14619/1259
DO - 10.14619/1259
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-95796-125-9
T3 - Digital Culture Series
SP - 143
EP - 157
BT - Non-Knowledge and Digital Cultures
A2 - Bernard, Andreas
A2 - Koch, Matthias
A2 - Leeker, Martina
PB - meson press
CY - Lüneburg
ER -