Digital transformations and Big Data
Todays Prof. Rowan took us into the world of digital data, it's usefulness as a resource and some ways of displaying it creatively, as well as it's potential for bias and corruption. Pre-lecture we watched a video on Aaron Swartz (The hacker of Jstore) Big data = the collection of information from multiple databases. (a sophisticated archive?) Datafication = processing the data to analyse it We are constantly creating data in this digital age, from social media accounts Twitter, Facebook etc, where our information on likes and dislikes can be gathered and sold to marketeers, datafication of moods and relationships... or used to predict trends; to CCTV and GPS which could be used for security, crime solution or easier navigation. We explored cultural differences between modes of social media interactions (chinese audio messaging app) How can we analyse diferent social media tools? how are they used? Why? What gratification do people get back from them? Connectivity, S...
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