New issue: Datafied Research Volume 4, Issue 1, 2015
Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen and Geoff Cox ISSN 2245-7755
This issue of APRJA examines the implications of datafication for research. Following a research workshop at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in October 2014, it addresses the thematic framework of the 2015 transmediale festival "Capture All" as a research topic: "to investigate and propose actions that push against the limits of today’s pervasive quantification of life, work and play", as the call explains. Indeed, to what extent does data "capture all" – even research?
We produce, share, collect, archive, use and misuse, knowingly or not, massive amounts of data, but what does its “capture” do to us? What are the inter-subjective relations between data-commodity and human subjects? In asking these questions, the articles in this journal seek insights into the logics of data flows between materials, things, data, code, software, interfaces and other stuff that permeates the culture of datafication.
CONTENTS
- Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle – Data Politics and Infrastructural
- Design: Between Cybernetic Mediation and Terminal Subjectivity Renée
- Ridgway – Personalisation as currency James Charlton – Add to Shopping
- Basket Audrey Samson – Erasure, an attempt to surpass datafication
- Minka Stoyanova – Gaming Systems: creative critiques of the ludic real
- Winnie Soon – Zombification: the living dead in spam Lea Muldtofte
- Olsen – Grammatized Psychopath: American Psycho Online and Offline
- Daniel C. Howe – Surveillance Countermeasures: Expressive Privacy via
- Obfuscation
ABOUT THE JOURNAL SERIES
APRJA is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital culture. APRJA stands for "A Peer-Reviewed Journal About" and invites the addition of a research topic to address what is considered to be key aspects of contemporary digital art and culture (and thereby complete each journal title). We take a particular interest in software studies, media archaeology, platform politics, interface criticism, computational culture and artistic research.