For Tues: finish reading Crawford’s “The Anxieties of Big Data” and complete the blog assignment below. Â Also read Nijhuis’ “The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention.” Â Bring both the Unit 2 Packet and the Grammar packet to class.
On the blog: below, make a list of 3 important points  you noticed in Crawford’s article “The Anxieties of Big Data.”  Also include 1 brief quotation from the article.  (Your points and quotation can be given in note form; i.e., you don’t have to write a full paragraph—we’ll work on that in class).
When reading “The Anxieties of Big Data.” what struck me odd was the OWS. Seeing as their location that they practice was New York. I have never heard of the group but I found it interesting that people dress like a tourist just to evade suspicion. Most of the doubt against Big data tends to be the fear of standing out of the norm. But isn’t that all that bad? On another note, I find the most bizarre thing is the fear of not having as much data. Don’t all scientist know that you cant have enough data on any subject.
IN the reading “The Anxieties of Big Data.” ‘surveillant anxiety’is described as the fear that all the data we share every day is too revealing of our intimate selves but may also misrepresent us.
one statement that stood out to me was “like a fluorescent light in a dark corridor, it can both show to much and not enough.”
another statement that stood out to me came from Cat Smith. “the ‘look of nothing’ is never going to be available to those who are marked as ‘other’ because the world has already placed identifiable markers on us”
One idea that I was interested in was the fact that no matter how much data u have its still incomplete . I agree with this because getting more and data gives u more connections and those connections have more connections. Another idea that was interesting was that anxiety has a temporality that is future oriented . It stood out to me because when you feel anxiety you feel like you’re gonna fail.
Another point I came across was the fact that the anxiety of those surveiled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveilers .
“the current mythology of big data is that with more data comes greater accuracy and truth
1. anxiety is the dominant affect of our current phase of capitalism, giving rise to political hopelessness, insecurity, and social separation.
2. the current mythology of big data is that with more data comes greater accuracy and truth. this epistemological position is so seductive that many industries, from advertising to automobile manufacturing, and re-positioning themselves for massive data gathering.
3. But what do you do when you realize that all that data is not enough? from the Boston bombings to…
The fear that all the data we are shedding every day is too revealing of our intimate selves but may also misrepresent us.
In Crawford’s article “The Anxieties of Big Data,” there are several important points. I was able to spot three main points, which are
• The bigger the data gets, the more small things get overlooked.
• The current mythology of big data is that with more data comes greater accuracy and truth.
• The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers.
In the article Crawford states, “If we take these twinned anxieties – those of the surveillers and the surveilled – and push them to their natural extensions, we reach an epistemological end point: on one hand, the fear that there can never be enough data, and on the other, the fear that one is standing out in the data. “
Three main points taken from the Article “The Anxieties of Big Data” are
Anxiety is the dominant affect of our current phase of capitalism.
The current mythology of dig data is that with more data comes greater accuracy
and truth.
The anxiety of those surveillance is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers.
“Anxiety, as Sianne Ngai has written, has a temporality that is future oriented.”
In Anxieties of Big Data by Kate Crawford she describes a program named Squeaky Dolphin that was created to monitor millions of internet users activity.
Three main points this article is anxiety’s shared between surveillers and the surveilled. the surveillers have a chance to hide(redact) their information as oppose to the surveilled.
The bigger the data gets, the more small things can be overlooked.
If you want to see future of surveillance, look to poor communities.
Bruno Latour states “Change the instruments, and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them”.