Wearables and how we measure ourselves through social media
This TED talk is about dataism- how we objectively quantify everything now. More and more life logging app/products are invented (the vessel, bracelet records your calories, the location-logging app, love all of them). But we always ignore the uncertainty of the data. I agree with her when she says data shouldn’t be the representation of our lives, it’s just the trace we left behind.
I wonder if we will ever overcome the uncertainty of the data? (Like the video we saw in class- a guy used 99 phones to create a fake traffic jam)
The social photo
“Social photography” is about photography and social media, which are the desire for life in its documented form. Almost everyone has phones and anyone can be a photographer. He also brought up the faux-vintage trend, which suggests the continuity with the nostalgia that all documentation implies. I feel like social photography is a fairly new word and I would like to know what it means to the generation before us.
What Do Metrics Want? How Quantification Prescribes Social Interaction on Facebook
Ben built a software called “Facebook Demetricator” and it removes all the metrics from the Facebook interface, and it reveals users’ “desire for more” culture on social media. The metrics guides users’ behaviors and reveals prescribed patterns of sociality.
Imagine a social media without any quantification, will it be able to compete with all the popular social media platforms?