So I am currently interning for a woman up in New York who runs her own editing business, meaning that twice a week we facetime for about 4-6 hours depending on the day and I complete tasks for her as she assigns them. Being that it is a virtual internship, almost all of my work is done online. The day I chose to track started with me watching videos on youtube on my TV, which does not have adblock on it so I found that the more videos I watched from a certain channel, the more the ads that popped up would change to reflect what I was watching. I was also doing research for my boss on Google Analytics, which is a service that tracks who is coming to her website and what they are looking at and for how long. I spent a couple hours doing research on Google Analytics, finding it oddly reflective of some of the things we discussed in this class. I also spent time researching other independent editors to see how their websites looked and what was working for them.<\/p>\n
In addition to the research I was doing for my boss, I had my email open for the entire day to make sending and receiving documents from her easier. I also signed up for two new services to better our communication: Evernote and Asana. Evernote is a website\/application that allows the sharing of “notes” digitally, meaning if I add a page from a website to my list of notes on Evernote, if it is in the right shared file my boss several states away can see it. Asana is a website that helps people get organized, and the way we use it is by her sharing\u00a0a “project” with me (in this case her marketing to-do list) and as I complete the tasks assigned I can check them off and she will see that they are done.<\/p>\n
All of that is just what I did for an internship, and when I add in time on Twitter, time logging into Moodle, time setting up a Voicethread account for my Arts and Design class, and time spent on Steam (where I had to add a phone number to my account because they have had security issues lately), my contributions to big data pile higher and higher.<\/p>\n
The contributions I made to big data indicate a few things about me- namely that I want to track traffic on a specific website, I’m interested in editors\/publishers, I like video games, and I’m trying to be more organized. Those few statements are pretty accurate, but I wouldn’t say that’s all I am. I don’t, however, think it would be feasible for me to opt out of big data since I am working in a virtual environment with a woman who lives several states away. I do wonder however how these data points will accumulate and affect me later on- my reading a Buzzfeed article about\u00a0dying hair bold and bright colors, shared with\u00a0me by my mom on Facebook, may stick with me for a long time. Looking at Google Analytics, I can’t help but wonder how detailed their tracking is and who else is using it to figure out if I am on their website and for how long. What if they keep that data and it’s something I don’t want people to know? What if they can prove I was on Facebook (admittedly waiting on a friend to message me back about helping me with a work related graphic design issue) while working on my internship?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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