"The Data Knows You Better Than You Do" and Other Constructions
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Today
Digital Humanities as Digital Culture Studies
The Internet of Things . . .
as a Concept
in Practice
and Social Justice
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The Application of Computation
to the Study of Literature + Culture
A Popular Digital Humanities Approach
Appeals, too, to Interests in Big Data
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Some Implications of this Approach
Complicate Assumptions about the Phenomenology and Epistemology of Reading
Formally Examine Social Relations
Expand What "Data" Implies
Underscore Surprise in Research
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See Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature"
A Digital Culture Studies Question . . .
(Where Media + Cultural Studies Interpret Computation)
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What Are the Logics of Architectures?
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: "Computers embody
a certain logic of governing or steering through the
increasingly complex world around us."
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See Chun, Programmed Visions
The Internet of Things as a Concept
Helps Us Understand Popular Perceptions and Depictions
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A Networked Architecture
Bruce Sterling: "When I shop, I shop with
a wand in my hand."
Sterling again: "I need an interface for capitalism itself."
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An Everted Architecture
Steven E. Jones: "from a world apart to a part of the world"
Jones again: "from a transcendent virtual reality
to mundane experience"
More Jones: "from a mysterious, invisible abstract world
to a still mostly invisible (but real) data-grid"
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See Jones, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities
A Programmable Architecture
Neil Gershenfeld: "bring the programmability of the digital worlds we've invented to the physical worlds we inhabit"
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See Gershenfeld, Fab
Data Knows You Better Than You Do
Addressable Objects Running in the Background
Forget, or Delegate Memory and Vision to Networks
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The Internet of Things in Practice
Helps Us Understand the Markets for Architectures
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Home Automation
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The Internet of Things and Social Justice
Some Pressing Concerns, with Some Responses
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The Kickstarter Economy
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Thank You
Special Thanks to Sidonie Smith, Doretha Coval,
Patrick Tonks, the Institute for the Humanities,
and the School of Information
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