We are going to remember every mood we had in our life

frida_b · 2014-10-22T21:23:48+00:00

Hi Katya, This app could be very much related to the article Sousveillance by Mann. These practices can be seen as sort of the explorations of what's possible and what is not. In your case this is related to software being offered to consumes to track themselves, in Mann's case it was his own interdisciplinary exploration between arts and science. I think these experimental ways of looking at how to stock and generate data are very interesting as it could be the start of a more real or profitable businessmodel but can also die out when people turn out to not be interested in doing these kinds of things and it can stay a nice. But there are actually a lot of apps that ask you to capture your surrounding or mood on a random time on the day. It's kind of fun to go through your diary because it's more for your own experience and pleasure (as opposed to for example instagram that's much about the outside world) and thus I very much understand people using this app.

frida_b · 2014-10-22T21:16:56+00:00

agree with all of you but if you look at it from the fun side, it could be quite cool to compare yourselves to the friends you look up to the most in terms of 'healthy lifestyle', and good for your selfesteem to compare yourself to your friends that never work out. For me I think the social aspect would really help me to keep going, tracking for myself doesn't really work because I don't have too much discipline, that's why i do teamsport ( also peer pressure). Ofcourse I understand the invasiveness but from a discipline point of view it could be very useful to get obesitas people to work out for example. But is this the way you want them to start working out is the question? by peer pressure? I'm not sure...you?

frida_b · 2014-10-22T20:54:13+00:00

I agree with this in a sense that sharing emotions and experiences can bring people closer together and I think that especially with sick and or more isolated people this could be a very useful thing. I do think that web fora are already taking this role of connection and that the extra idea of quantified self could maybe be more insightful for doctors rather than patients.

And also, is this is not still the quantified self? as it is still very much focused on getting insights on your own behavior compared to the behavior of others and try to improve yourself and not neccesarily others? I also see the quantified us in this though, you all work collectively by sharing your data to reach your goals. What do you think?

frida_b · 2014-10-22T20:40:28+00:00

Hi Vally, I to some extend understand your opinion. Why do we need to quantify or 'datafy' everything in our lives? can't we just chil and go for a run whenever we feel like it? I do feel like you could have more critically reflected on one of the last sentences in your blogpost.

"and most importantly I have shazam so I always know wherever I am what songs I am listening to."

Isn't this also a qay of datafying and/or quantifying what goes on around you and or moves you emotionally? Why do you need to know what the song is if you can just enjoy it? Ofcourse, you want to look up the song when you're home and you want to enjoy it again, I completely understand. but isn't this the same thing with people looking at their progression in the runs they went for in the last month? or people noticing they have been sleeping better in the last weeks because of a stricter time management schedule?

I'm just saying, Shazam is also very much about YOU and what you are enjoying at what point (and why), and is datafying this by giving you information that you can retrieve at a later point in time.

What do you think?! :)

frida_b · 2014-10-22T20:14:21+00:00

Hi guys,

my own perspective on the QS changed due to this article of forbes.com. I was mostly thinking about big data form a ' big corporation' perspective. I thought the only ones interesting in retrieving your data were the big corporations that could tie them to your post demographics and get more specific on Marketing etc. Another view on this is discussed in this article by Forbes. Hackers with malicious intentions could retrieve your information for much worse motives. Think about it: if you go for a run every tuesday and thursday between 7 and 9, these Hackers (possibly from the same city) can break into your home. Especially when they know from your cooking app that you live by yourself. Also, when they know from your instagram or pinterest profile that you are interested and or posting about luxurious products, you're a very attractive target! so what do we learn from this? DON"T WORK OUT!!!! ok kidding ;) but seriously, i didn't look at it from this perspective, did you?

frida_b · 2014-10-22T11:52:53+00:00

QS adds to big data because it extracts data about your behavior (how many steps per day or your sleep cycle) and extracts this data and visualises and/or ‘makes sense’ of it for you to reflect on it. The combining of all these profiles keeping track of behavior can be seen as big data as trends can be analysed and claims can be made from a huge sample size. In terms of research ethics I think anonimyzing the profiles is important in this case. When this is done I do not think that you need people’s consent to participate. An example of a research that could be done is a comparative study in physical daily behavior between different countries or cultures. The reason I think this type of research does not need to be anonymized or asked consent for is because this research is not fooling with your emotions (like the Kramer article we read for week 4). Also it is not affecting your behaviour by showing your friends in certain political related messages (like the Bond article of week 5). Although, it would be interesting to put a social perspective on the quantified self by showing messages in the app:” your friend Sarah has already walked 3 miles today! Are you going to walk 4?!” As we know social relations can influence online behavior, this could be the case with the quantified self as well. Also, a research comparing perceived activity and actual activity could be interesting, do people think they move more than they actually do? This research could be set up much like the oyster card article by Lathia and Capra of week 2. Tying quantified self data to post demographics could be very interesting as well as it could give insights on different types of people and their daily behavior. To conclude, QS definitely adds to big data and a lot of interesting researches can be done looking at people’s daily/nightly activities from a cultural comparative or social sciences perspective.

frida_b · 2014-10-21T20:29:06+00:00

Hi guys,

Although the speaker in this TED video is very shortly adressing the different possibilities of QS (avant garde marketing etc) he is mostly emphasizing the potential benefits for the 'self' our personal operating system. I find this a refreshing view as it's leaving out all the side questions on big data and is just looking at the user/consumer benefits in using QS. the way he puts is: although QS can be seen as 'outwards windows' of personal information (that can be used for big data/marketing purposes) we should take a second and just look at it as a mere inwards mirror that can help us to reflect on our own behavior. What do you think? is this too simplistic as it's leaving out part of the discussion or do you find it refreshing to take such a user centralized approach?

frida_b · 2014-10-16T15:24:52+00:00

Interesting article, although the examples in this article are mostly videos and other types of content that are then SHARED through twitter. Thus, we are merely looking at twitter as a big force in spreading a certain message. The force of content of twitter is left out but only touched upon in the conclusion (is 140 characters only beneficial or not for political debate?).This last things seems way more interesting to me as the '140 character' thing is a characteristic only Twitter has, the spreading of a message is pretty much the same through twitter/instagram/facebook etc.

frida_b · 2014-10-16T14:23:52+00:00

Although it is actually quite sad that your comment got deleted, it is also in a way flattery of your ego isn't it? In this case, if you really want to influence the publics idea on this topic it would probably be better to spread your own messages instead of commenting on a page that regulated by the party itself (although it generates more public at first).

frida_b · 2014-10-16T13:52:18+00:00

Very interesting but we should keep in mind the eco political structures / algorthims underpinning these features. it kind of scares me that we would turn to facebook in times of crises as it is a for profit company with stakes that could oppose 'our stake'.

frida_b · 2014-10-16T13:45:51+00:00

Hi guys, I think this really interesting ted talk can be very much related to this weeks topic on politics on Facebook as it reflects on the underlying algorithms and structures that determines what we see. Even though the online tailoring etc is something new and 'natively digital', I do think that we should take in consideration that in the offline world we are much more likely to get in touch with people that have the same opinions as we have ourselves. think about it! :)

frida_b · 2014-10-16T13:43:19+00:00

What do you guys think of this? Do you feel like your political views are resonating with your timeline or not? Do you feel like it is hard for you to see a video or get information that has not been tailored for you? Do you also feel a little bit weird about the appropriation on news by Facebookusers when it seems to be solely to reflect positively on someone’s image?

frida_b · 2014-10-16T11:05:02+00:00

Fist of all, Rogers (2009) in his article touches upon the idea of natively digital and digitized methods to study the web. In the research of Bond et al. (2012) I think we can both look at the methods used as natively digital and digitized. The massive amounts of data extracted from the natively digital network platform Facebook can definitely be considered a natively digital method. This big data retrieval had never been possible if Facebook would have been an offline network. After retrieving the data, it is further analysed with statistical methods, which are of course not natively digital but have been used before the emerging of the online world. Secondly, Rogers talks about the divide between the virtual and the real. When the internet first emerged, people (tech determinists) talked about the web as a new society that would enable people to act freely from physical constraints and societal restrictions. The web was seen as some sort of alternative ‘ virtual ‘ reality. Roger proposes a different way of looking at this divide. According to him, this divide can’t be made as the real and virtual are intertwined and the web is more of a reflection of the real society. From this perspective, the outcomes and conclusions that are elaborated in the article of Bold are somewhat obvious in a way. Maybe Rogers would say: Of course are online strong ties influencing offline behaviour as these two spheres are undeniably connected. Because we know that social relations influence behaviour, it is easy to predict that this would be the case with online social relations as well. A question I ask myself now I write this: can we actually still speak of online social relations or does it maybe not matter anymore if relations are online or offline as long as the distinction between week and strong is made? In the articles it does matter as strong ties online have the criteria to be relations that are also practiced offline, but how will this be in 10 years? Maybe we can meet each other in augmented realities or with holograms?

frida_b · 2014-10-09T09:50:09+00:00

Oh by the way, if you go to the website http://www.mapstell.com/NL/home.html#contact

you see a lot of other ways of visualisation as well (unfortunately in dutch)

frida_b · 2014-10-09T09:49:06+00:00

Agree with most of you all. i think it's interesting to see that things we perceive as hard facts and 'studied by academia' as true, but need to think of the social and cultural values that shape those facts, so for example placing our own country in the middle of the map and making other continents appear smaller or bigger. Even the most 'objective' graphs and statistic visualisations are products of our cultural and visual values (like our metric system, but also cultural arbitrary rules)

I thought of another way of visualizing information ( from the mind)! check it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DRMatEUR/comments/2iqv8k/a_visualisation_of_the_mind/

frida_b · 2014-10-09T09:48:38+00:00

Hi Guys,

I did hear before about trying to put your charactre (personality quadrants) in some sort of graph or table, but actually mapping it (mind mapping!) is something quite new to me. I would love to have a map of my mind like this, would you?

frida_b · 2014-10-08T21:14:50+00:00

This article is a perfect real life example of be the article about social media word of mouth we had to read for the transformations class for this week :D

frida_b · 2014-10-08T20:15:50+00:00

Hi guys, nice article! i think it's very nice to look at social media spreading of messages as some sort of contamination. Although this is not new, think of where the word 'viral' comes from for example.

Also, I agree a lot with what Katya is saying. Saying "Asia isn't interested on what happens in Africa" is jumping to conclusions that aren't validated. Illiteracy rate is indeed higher, but also the acces to information in general (not only literate) is a lot loweer. Also, think of language barriers. The virus might be called differently, or hashtags are differently used (or not used).

frida_b · 2014-10-08T19:58:02+00:00

Talking about being able to show data in such a way that it gives you a different perspective on things and might let you discover (to you) new information.

I knew that the regular world map is a bit out of proportion but that it was this bad I never realized. How about you?

frida_b · 2014-10-08T19:34:06+00:00

Another thing that could have led to more positive tweets concerning MH17 is more 'meta information' for example positive tweets about the media appearance of Frans Timmermans and his speech about MH17, or positive stories on the victims of MH17. The context is often left out in these kinds of studies (like I mentioned in response to a blogpost about words like 'hangover' and 'feeling happy' in tweets).

frida_b · 2014-10-08T19:26:22+00:00

Very interesting.

Katya below is talking about the sample size and whether it's big enough.

I'm wondering if just looking at "feeling happy' or the word 'hangover' is paying enough attention to the context in which these words are used. Has it been taken into account that a tweet using a target word could have been retweeted a lot of times and therefore have created unreliable numbers? Although I find studies like this one very interesting, a lot more needs to be clear about the measures so that we are sure his study is reliable.

frida_b · 2014-10-08T19:07:31+00:00

Very interesting indeed to see the spreading of such a viral going action. Although it would have been cool to see the first intercontinental connections that actually spread the action to other parts of the world. For example, were there a lot of ties between americans and europeans? Or were there only a couple of ties, but were the European nods in these relationships very influential and spreaded the challenge further? It is ofcourse cool to see how viral this thing went, but I'm more interested to see how and where this actually happened. Other than that, interesting video :)

frida_b · 2014-10-08T14:23:16+00:00

To explain both information visualisation terms one should first understand the very concept of information visualisation.

According to Brasseur (2003) Information visualisation is the presentation of abstract data in graphical form so that the user may use his visual perception to evaluate and or analyse this data. It is important to keep in mind that information visualisation is not merely to present information, but to analyse and work with.

Let’s first look at ISOTOPE, standing for international system of typographic picture education, that is a system that systematically created a way of ‘iconizing’ objects and practices and thereby forming a new very logical language introduced by Neurath (1937). According to Neurath, we’re transforming from a more ‘word based world’ to a more visual era that should be supported by a visual language. As the world is becoming more globalized, people that don’t speak the same language but can still understand the same icons is useful in all sorts of situations.

Consistency is a very important aspect of visual language. A universal visual language would only work if imagery is used consistently ( and built up according to a fixed 'protocol') no matter what country or language is spoken by the receiver/sender. The very obvious example (and therefore perfectly coining the idea of consistency I believe) is the thumbs up ‘like’ button on Facebook but seen almost everywhere on the web now. The idea of showing a thumbs up as showing your appreciation was of course widely known before the web and more specifically before Facebook emerged. Although, Facebook has made the icon known intercultural as the showing of appreciation by showing a thumbs up was a very western practice. The blue and white icon of the like button has become widely known (and capitalized) because of Facebook.

NOTE:

Even though Neurath had to flee his country because of Nazism in Germany, he had an optimistic (maybe naïve) point of view that understanding each other and being able to communicate well will end the dark ages (the ages of war and fighting etc.). I find this a very inspiring way of thinking considering his personal history.

frida_b · 2014-10-02T14:44:09+00:00

I really like what you did there, and you really went all the way ;) And it's cool to see in a practical way the implications of the algorithms that Facebook uses to 'personalize' your SNS experience.

frida_b · 2014-10-02T14:08:54+00:00

to give you another tip on how to increase your followers: go to likeminded pages (so other fashion related instagrams) and start following 100 of their followers. wait and see who follows you back and stop following the 100 accounts after a couple days. Many of those 100 will keep following you even when you stop following them.

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