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itemizing the creed of creativity
Yesterday we had a very interesting Flexit workshop in Uppsala, together with the Dept for Industrial Engineering & Management at Uppsala University. One of the keynote speakers was Allan Simpson,...
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conference notes, may 4th
The last day of the ICTs & Society Conference saw a few really good papers and keynotes. In particular, the keynotes by Trebor Scholz, Mark Andrejevic, and Andrew Feenberg were nothing less than...
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idea: the “♥ sharing” charity drive
Show some love. Save the shows you love. A fundraiser for all you file sharers out there! In my ongoing email interviews with file-sharers, several interesting topics have cropped up: First of all,...
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inductive & deductive planning
…or: Online advertising works! (At least for those over 40.) Reflections on Duncan Watts’s Everything is Obvious – Once You Know The Answer. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, although bits of it are...
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public service broadcasting, paternalism, and panspectric data mining
What happens when public service broadcasting is increasingly taking place on the web, mediated by web technologies? As we know by now, these technologies have data retention built into them. They...
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models of prediction
The Amazon model of prediction: “Those who like this feature on our site have also liked…” The Facebook model of prediction: “We see that you have this age, gender, and have expressed that you liked...
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gutwirth & hildebrandt, 2010
The use and convergence of the web, mobile phones, electronic financial systems, biometric identification systems, RFIDs, GPS, ambient intelligence and so forth, all participate in the automatic...
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my research profile (updated)
In Sweden, I’ve become known as something of a “file sharing researcher” but I do have more strings to my bow – I’m currently particularly interested in how online sharing culture hinges on a variety...
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gamifying the everyday incentives for giving up personal data
a modest proposal for a business strategy in the age of database economies, audience profiling, and predictive algorithms Within the field of economics of media consumption and estimations of audience...
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back-end secret technology
onboarding and Facebook Atlas In order to display personalized ads, many companies try to track how users move on the Web, often through cookies. If you check out a pair of shoes on a website, then...
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