Unless you’ve been living under a rock for these past few months (and honestly, if you have, I am not judging), you’ll have heard of Cambridge Analytica . These revelations struck a chord with the research we have been conducting over the past few months here at Object-Oriented Subject. Continue reading “Reflections on Cambridge Analytica, #DeleteFacebook et al”
Author: Lídia Pereira
Lídia Pereira (PT) is an indepent designer, artist and researcher based in Rotterdam, NL.
Her current interests revolve around the political organisation of labour in corporate social networking platforms and working class identity within networked economies, presenting a focus on the power structures governing online and offline behaviour.
She is the founding editor of the Pervasive Labour Union zine (ilu.servus.at), a project which offers a low-barrier entry level for contributors to express their views on social media labour, but also a low-barrier entry level for those wishing to become acquainted with these debates.
Weapons of Math Destruction – Lecture Synopsis
Last November I attended one event connecting to crucial aspects of Object-Oriented Subject’s research, namely the exploration of the relationships of power and control embedded in algorithms. This event was a lecture by Cathy O’Neil in Utrecht, given on the 21st of November. As some interesting insights were gathered during this occasion, especially concerning a data scientist’s perspective on algorithm design and application, I would like to write a synopsis of the most relevant points raised by Cathy O’Neil. Continue reading “Weapons of Math Destruction – Lecture Synopsis”
Schematic Patents
After going through the process of mining and selecting relevant patents (you can read all about it here), and ending up with 530 “Must Read” patents and 254 “Maybe” patents, I started the process of reading and summarizing them. Continue reading “Schematic Patents”
Soft biopolitics?
During the month of August, furthering my reading of ‘We Are Data’ by John Cheney-Lippold provided me with some very useful concepts that I would like to share. Continue reading “Soft biopolitics?”
A Tale of 3 Patents
Before Lucia and me decided to take a more systematic and scalable approach towards the selection of relevant patents, I performed a manual, preliminary search at Fresh Patents which yielded around 100 results containing certain important keywords in the title (e.g.: categorizing, targeting, clustering, etc). From this preliminary selection, I read three patents: Continue reading “A Tale of 3 Patents”
Advertising on Facebook and other stories
Following our commitment to keep an active and periodic communication regarding the development of “Object-Oriented Subject”, my first post here in this blog will function as a report of my research notes, insights and intentions during the initial period of this project’s activities. Continue reading “Advertising on Facebook and other stories”