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110Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containmentEthics and Information Technology 23 (S1): 1-6. 2021.The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the “phase 2” of the pandemic, when lockdown and other restriction measures are progressively withdrawn, in order to avoid or minimize contagion resurgence. For this purpose, contact-tracing apps are being proposed for large scale adoption by many countries. A centralized approach, where data sensed by the app are all sent to a nation-wide server, rai…Read more
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589Hacking the social life of Big DataBig Data and Society 2 (2). 2015.This paper builds off the Our Data Ourselves research project, which examined ways of understanding and reclaiming the data that young people produce on smartphone devices. Here we explore the growing usage and centrality of mobiles in the lives of young people, questioning what data-making possibilities exist if users can either uncover and/or capture what data controllers such as Facebook monetize and share about themselves with third-parties. We outline the MobileMiner, an app we created to c…Read more
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7Data Motility: The Materiality of Big Social DataCultural Studies Review 20 (1). 2014.In this article, the author uses Foucault's largely overlooked but vital concept, the dispositif, in relation to the recent rise of mobility, explosion of data and proliferation of platforms and apps. With a focus on how data an individual generates increasingly moves autonomously of their control, he presents the dispositif of ‘data motility’ to develop a new materialist analysis of the digital human as a discursive and non-discursive assemblage.
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19The Labor of the Multitude and the Fabric of BiopoliticsMediations 23 (2). 2008.What did Foucault mean by biopolitics? It is both a set of techniques for disciplining populations and a site for producing new subjectivities, a potential counterpower. In an historical moment characterized by the real subsumption of labor under capital , thinking this latter aspect of biopolitics becomes vital: as capitalist relations colonize formerly private zones of experience, those zones no longer constitute an outside to capitalism, but rather must be thought of both as immanent to it an…Read more
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26Technics and the Human Sensorium: Rethinking Media Theory through the BodyTheory and Event 13 (4). forthcoming.
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26Technological Infestation—Human Becoming Insect: Parikka's Insect MediaTheory and Event 15 (1). 2012.
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Trent UniversityRegular Faculty
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada