{"id":62,"date":"2016-01-13T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiq.knx.mybluehost.me\/website_78d26930\/bigdatacourse?p=62"},"modified":"2016-01-20T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:47:11","slug":"big-data-and-human-culture-blog-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/big-data-and-human-culture-blog-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data and Human Culture Blog Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog should be completed and posted before you come to class on January 20th.<\/p>\n

In class, we discussed some of the ways that our every-day actions are already connected to big data. Your assignment for this blog post (400-500 words or media equivalent) is to track a day in the life of your data. Choose one day between now and the next time we meet, and\u00a0keep track using a notebook or your cell phone of every action that you take which could feasibly be included in a big database. Consider the following example:<\/p>\n

After doing this for an entire day, you should post about the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Summarize the\u00a0contributions you believe you made to big data for the day.<\/li>\n
  2. What does this contribution say about who “you” are?<\/li>\n
  3. Do you feel that it would be feasible to opt-out of your inclusion in\u00a0big data?<\/li>\n
  4. Generate what Dan Geer calls a\u00a0Tomorrow Question (see Terms of Service <\/em>reading).<\/li>\n
  5. Please make sure you comment\u00a0substantially on at least two other posts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Consider the following example, both as a way to think about how you use data, but also as a way of presenting your results:<\/p>\n

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    [If you are considering expanding this post into your longer final post for HASTAC, you\u00a0could try to go an entire day without contributing any of your data to a database, and blog about the challenges this presents.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This blog should be completed and posted before you come to class on January 20th. In class, we discussed some of the ways that our every-day actions are already connected to big data. Your assignment for this blog post (400-500 words or media equivalent) is to track a day in the life of your data.
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