Tuesday, October 21, 2014

This week in LIS 201 (week 08)

Week 08: Big data and social surveillance

LECTURE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION

HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION

  • If it's your turn to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.
  • If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice!  Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.
  • Post your rough draft of paper #2 to your personal wiki pages (you will want to create a separate page so that your peer reviewers can just "comment" at the bottom).

DISCUSSION MEETING

  • First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms
  • Two student presentations (#11 and #12) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).
  • Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.

ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND

This week, you will discover how much information you can find out about yourself online.
  • First, do a geodemographic marketing analysis on yourself, by searching online for data about the place where you live which someone might ascribe to you. Here are some sites to start with: 
  • Next, do a social networking analysis on yourself, by searching for online data specifically about you on various social networking services that you might use  -- Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. Make sure you are not logged in to those services in order to see what an outside visitor would see (you might want to try searching your Facebook identity from a public computer, for example).
  • Now do a general Google search, first using your name in different combinations ("Greg Downey," "Downey, Greg," "G Downey," etc.), then using your email address, and finally using your telephone number.
  • Can you think of any other sites to search for which might provide either individual or aggregate data to help flesh out your "digital puppet"?
  • When you are finished searching these sites, create a new post on your discusion section blog describing the person that a geodemographic firm would see when they look for "you". What do you think about this representation of your existence?
  • Comment on at least one other student's posting for this assignment.
  • You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.

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