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This is the second installment of Data Based,  a weekly Cyborgology feature producing original, insightful, and fun data visualizations.

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The old Netflix Friends used people to personalize; the new Netflix with Facebook uses people to homogenize

If autonomous vehicles obey traffic laws, income from traffic violations should go down

It shows how necessary it is to now deconstruct, in the sense of Derrida, the theories about the virtual

The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not

Tumblr encourages unbounded use. It allows you to experiment and play

characterizations of digital or physical, virtual or material, necessarily obscure how each constitutes the other

Drones as killer robots, drones as children sent off to war

if engineers could come up with an iPotty that fits in your purse, links up to Twitter and takes photos, toilet access might catch up with phones” (thanks jenny!)

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at every history conference in the foreseeable future, there should be a women’s history Wikipedia Room

It’s a fair guess that the attorneys in the Cannibal Cop case have never heard of digital dualism

our discomfort with Google Glass is drawn by body horror, not fear of surveillance institutions

the cultural and technological impact of Grindr is much broader than most people realize

A future of frictionless, continuous shopping fits with Google’s vision for the world

we really don’t have a choice between mediated and unmediated experience

For Brin, Glass is for a privileged elitemore...

Using microchips, proud grandparents threaten to store thousands of images on portable show-and-tell miniscreens

The most important Google Glass experience is not the user experience – it’s the experience of everyone else

with Silicon Valley at the helm, our life will become one long California highway

Is a tweet labor? Is a Facebook post labor?

Drone makers have been courting the paparazzi

widespread bigotry and rape culture are just as big if not bigger barriers to a free and open Internet as over-zealous copyright laws and bandwidth caps

there is no good pre-internet metaphor for what it’s trying to do

sources confirmed that the president said “Go get ’em!” and quietly watched the drone fly off into the night sky

Drones permit and accelerate new topographies of warfare

The Auto-Tune or not Auto-Tune debate always seems to turn into a moralistic one, like somehow you have more integrity if you don’t use it

we might someday wonder why our childhood memories are held under DRM

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digital poetics has reignited artistic emphases on processorial, fragmented conceptualizations of literature

TED talks just to keep from looking at the cops

Real life isn’t lived in just the “digital” or “physical” realm. It’s actually an interplay between both realms

If we want to protect privacy, we should be more clear about why it is important

a trend emerged where visual anonymity led to less disclosiveness

Is documentary vision a new way of dreaming? Does it enmesh the “virtual” with the “physical”?

Novels about robots are still novels. Get over itmore...

Catfish is Jerry Springer for the social media age

Let’s face it: panic about ‘people’ not pairing off is really panic about women not pairing off

the idea that technology comes from us, people, is something we are reluctant to accept

Stop Calling It ‘Digital Humanities’

temporary photography is doing something very interesting with time

I don’t oppose the MOOC any more than I oppose online classes, or three-hundred-person-lectures, or Wikipedia

the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace

Everybody in the industry wants to see Spotify succeed

Who hates free speech? The powerful and the powerlessmore...

Facebook has certainly taken notice of the desire for impermanence

It’s interesting that we now create things specifically to forget

networks can be far more tyrannical, opaque, and anti-democratic than hierarchies

Snapchat subverts the affordances of networked publics…the technology now—not the recipient—is the trusted object

using the magic word “MOOC,” the privatization disappears in a puff of euphemism. We are instead “expanding access”

Just as CafePress can sell you a customized T-Shirt, why shouldn’t OKCupid aspire to sell you a customized partner?

use online connectivity not to try to define ourselves perfectly but to undo ourselves over and over

social media seem to intersect interpersonal sociality and corporate monetization

they all took snapshots and movies of each other out of fear of experiencing the meaninglessness of their existence

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the Internet is laughing. And Applebee’s is losing a lot of customers

Let me break it down, Your Holiness: sentiment-wise, your entrance on Twitter has been saluted by a roaring “meh”

People need to worry less about the future of print and worry more about the future of sentences

cogito ergo sum is usurped by something with far more ominous implications: “I am documented, therefore I am.”

Facebook is the perfect “safe space” cos it has white walls and feels like home and you don’t own shit

people click Like merely because humans have an irresistible desire to be counted

when DRM makes products less valuable, it also makes them less real

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for those of us whose bodies seem like a burden or an ontological prison, the Internet functions as a utopia of sorts

Vine’s six seconds feels like an eternity

These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online

I hear ‘clickclickclickclickclick’ all over the place…they are photographing me, and now I’m pissed. I felt like a zoo animal

Facebook is not *doing* anything to society

we don’t like seeing Apple bloggers imply Android’s success doesn’t count because what—poor people don’t count?

Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?

Plato was right. The efficient and durable externalization of memory makes us personally indifferent to remembrancemore...