New paper out from Data in the Home Project!
Findings from phase 1 of the Data in the Home project were published last month in Media International Australia. The…
‘It is a soft-toy. It helps you to fall asleep. There can’t be a computer in it!’ Reflecting on the research of Pekka Mertala
Last week the Deakin node of the Australian Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child welcomed Dr Pekka Mertala from…
Datafying the family home: Notes on Barassi’s ‘Child Data Citizen’
In her book ‘Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies are Profiling Us from Before Birth’ (2021), Veronica Barassi provides a…
Survey for phase 1: Mapping Data in the Home
Launching the ‘Mapping Data in the Home’ project
We are very pleased to be launching phase 1 of the ‘Mapping Data in the Home’ project! This project will investigate…
Wearables as affective materialisations of data: Notes on Lindner’s Molecular Politics
Having recently read Peter Lindner’s (2020) article Molecular Politics, Wearables, and the Aretaic Shift in Biopolitical Governance, I was struck by the…
Researching invisible data – Notes on Neumayer, Rossi & Struthers (2021)
After a bit of a break over the Australian summer and then a busy start to 2021, I have finally…
What does imagination have to do with materialising data?
While it might seem unusual to be writing about imagination and imaginaries as part of this project, there are a…
Metaphors of data – it’s time to redefine how we talk about data
Metaphors are a short-hand way of understanding complex ideas and concepts; they involve experiencing one thing in terms of another.…
(Re-)structuring Time Through Data Representations
Representations of data are always retrospective. Even if occurring in supposed ‘real time,’ real time occurred some time in the…
Materialising data in the home
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been conducting a scoping review of data in the home. It has…
How did we get here? Notes on Orit Halpern’s Beautiful Data (part 1)
Our contemporary media environments were not technically determined; aesthetic practices were central to the production of the condition of possibility…
Data Smart Kids program in the news
As explained in an earlier blog post, the Materialising Data project was designed to extend upon findings from the Data…
Materialising the implications of data: The Digital Defense Playbook
Recently, I’ve been reviewing critical data education programs paying particular attention to the ways data is materialized as an object…
Adapting Dourish & Mazmanian’s conceptualisations of digital information to the materialising data project
In their 2011 article, Dourish and Mazmanian argue the information age marks a key shift from material objects to their…
Keyword: MATERIALITY
Data is often thought of as immaterial – devoid of physical properties and without a tangible form. Imagined as immaterial,…
Mimi Onuoha – The Library of Missing Datasets
“When you look into them, you start to realize that they almost universally intersect with the interests of the most…
Keyword: DATA
Data are imagined and enunciated against the seamlessness of phenomena (Gitelman, 2013, p.2). Data is a word used across most…
Re-learning how to see – Notes on the work of Trevor Paglen
It is precisely at such limits – between knowing and not-knowing, between the perceptible and the undetectable secrecy and revelation,…
new ways of understanding digital data 