Posts by Wardwilliams

Open Data and The Public Good: Company Ethics

The company I choose for this assignment is a company most of you probably know pretty well, Apple. A for...

Commodification and Power Readings and Blog Post for Monday

Please read the article below from page 143 – 161 for class on Monday. http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Blog Post: What do you...

Fuel for the Fire

I was somewhat surprised that the creators of an app like Tinder would even be interested in gathering data on...

Commodification and Power Readings: Monday

Here are the readings for Monday’s class. Please come prepared to discuss. Blog post will be posted Monday after class and due...

Self-Made Data Mine

I’ve said before in previous posts that I don’t tend to notice the amount of data I output but, considering...

World Wide [Social] Webwork

This is a difficult subject for me to write about, I’m assuming the feed mentioned in the assignment is supposed...

Quantified Self-Reflection

The app that I have chosen for this assignment is the only piece of self-tracking that I am aware I...

Minimalist Advertising

It didn’t take long to pull up my most recent photos, since these three (including the featured image) are the...

A Day of Big Data

After recording a day’s worth of all of the possible contributions to big data that I made, I found that...