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... discussions about categorization by race and ethnicity, demonstrating persistent anti-Black racism. Turning to Wikidata, I reveal how the ontology of whiteness shifts as it enters the database, functioning differently than existing theories of whiteness account for. While the data does point toward...

... you learn which images have shrimp in them and which ones don’t. Are you hungry, AI? Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 AI artificial intelligence labor the cloud data metadata We are composing this text on a series of shared Google Docs. We talk together, we dance together...

... Elahi’s daily movements, which he began recording in an effort to subvert government surveillance. Taking seriously the idea that information should be treated as a commodity, this article uses Marxist theory to articulate how surveillance data fit within the broader information economy. Drawing from...

... these two layers. The first layer regards the neocolonial construction of an ethnosubject anchored in the racialization of DNA. This racialization consists of two steps. First, race is naturalized and biologized anew through the technological procedure of DNA decoding and data comparison. Second, race...

...Jacqueline Nassy Brown This article critically examines a common premise of racial discourse in contemporary multiracial societies: that ethnic data collection, in the form of population statistics, is necessary for the apprehension and eradication of discrimination. Drawing on ethnographic data...

... users’ affect and content were easily reduced to marketer-friendly data sets, MySpace allowed users to create a cacophony of “pimped” profiles that undermined efforts to monetize user-generated content. In contrast, Facebook has proven to be extremely efficient at reducing users to commodifiable data...

...Jessica Marie Johnson This article explores the role slavery’s eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Atlantic archive plays alongside the digital humanities’ drive for data. It situates critiques of the digital humanities in relation to decades-old debates about slavery that have reemerged with efforts...

...James E. Dobson Abstract Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a key technology powering the automated technologies of seeing known as computer vision. CNNs have been especially successful in systems that perform object recognition from visual data. This article examines the persistence of a mid...

... of disenchantment: a reminder that diasporic bodies inhabit tactile economies, data streams, born of emotional and financial trajectories that make it impossible to anticipate the ingenious forms of belonging—and exquisite strategies of exclusion—they will ultimately help to erect, however unwittingly? © 2009...

... enabled a different mode of property to emerge: the genomic commons. Far from being the alternative to enclosure, the commons itself has become an accumulation strategy in a postgenomic climate in which the aggregation of large quantities of genomic data and the accumulation of racial diversity...

... use this term perhaps too loosely) still do and are. They and along with those cast in white collars also do the unremunerated work of interface, of tending their screens—someone’s screen. As Instagram contributor or data point on a sovereign census, they drive the world computer picosecond...

... expertise to excavate their material bases. Our collaboration thinks through how users and producers from what Anita Say Chan has called “networking peripheries” engage with poor digital infrastructures, capitalistic exploitation, and the commodification of their bodies and the data they produce. 3 We...

... in which portraits of institutionalized children available for adoption circulated with surprising ease. Images of “waiting children” performed multiple functions in the adoption process.2 Brochures enclosed with agency mailings displayed child images captioned with brief bio- graphical or medical data...

... of the skin with cross-hatching. The other drawing is of labia majora, described as a “Negress specimen from the Surgeon General's Museum published by Dr. Lamb.” In this way Dickinson makes it clear that these are not data points that he consulted for his production of the sexological norms that emerge from...

... the technologies that produce and disseminate it. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 fake news big data knowledge technology media When did we get on board with the project of “manufacturing consent”? When did we lose confidence in our capacity to fight infowars, grasp irony, throw shade...

...; and to the organizers and participants of the roundtable discussions and DC-focused trans community needs assessment survey design, implementation, analysis, and writeup. Most important, this text, and all of the discussion, data, and analysis within, is possible only because of the donated labor, time, and shared...

... claims, health care access, shorter jail sentences, and broad political influence. As populations adapt to ubiquitous platform standards, corporate agendas mold labor, land, identity, and values in line with commercial priorities. Data is continuously readied for the algorithm through interfaces...

... of strong might ask whether and to what extent users are aware of the data records used to represent them. Are those data records malleable? Do they permit pseudonymity to novel structures and novel values? For example, do census forms permit subjects to occupy multiple racial categories, or none...

... of control: Claude, an “e-psychologist,” manages Marteen, who herself oversees the unemployment case file of a third character, Alex. While Claude and Marteen have access to the entirety of inferiors’ personal and job-related data (so as to better “coach” them in the ways of “automotivation”), readers...

... to settle in rural areas is agricultural workers. U.S. Labor Department data have indicated that almost 80 per- cent of all U.S. farmworkers are Mexican born. These workers are found in some of the most remote rural communities, and increasingly, they are settling in those communities. Sometimes...