CCDN 271
Assignment Two & Three
Make a Claim and Substantiate It
Julio Inglez - 300237929
Statement of Intent:
Contemporary society is surrounded by technology and
social networks in which they are incentivised to distribute their personal
information in order to fit within the standards of these network and
technological frames. This scenario arises a discussion topic that explores the
privacy contained in people’s exposed data not only within social intention,
but also in relation to technology as a whole. A strong and substantial
standpoint generated from this discussion is that personal data should be
private from any external use, focusing towards a more restricted system of
data collection, leading to limited information being transmitted between one
party and another. Being cognizant of the importance retained in people’s
private data, I will research a perspective that differs from the idea of
restriction and coincides with the perception that massive data collection can
be used for good purposes and lead to self-humanity and environmental
development.
Elaboration and development of the given subject will
be my main focus as well as targeting a convincingly standpoint that explores
the several comforting prospects linked to the correct and ethical use of
gratuitous data propagation.
The book Digitalia
by Susannah Hagan 2008 will be my source of information extraction since it
cites several examples of data that are collected towards the development of
architecture in relation to the environment as well as the avant-garde.
I will assign ‘Massive Change’ to my thesis as my
intersecting theme considering my interest in environmental and architecture
augmentation. It will also cooperate with my standpoint by convincingly
expressing massive environmental and architectural changes as positive
artefacts. My starting point reference that quite often relates back to this
subject is the book Architecture and
Beauty by Yael Reisner and Fleur Watson. It contains a few examples of data
being expressed as architectural work as well as creative abstract art created
by well recognised artists and architects.
[Start of assignment three:]
Data privacy concerns can get in the way of
mass data collection for relevant sociological research due to its enforced
restricted and public unawareness.
Companies that have the job of managing
huge amounts of personal data such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr
automatically have the task of restricting the use of the same. The same way
that people are insecure about the idea of what is done with their data, they
are also unaware of how restricted its access is already set. For example,
Sprint, one of the largest phone companies in the United States will allow only
specific data to be shared with their researchers that are related to their
topic of focus. Several laws are applied to their employment system so that
their data is never exposed all together. The reason being is that the business
does not want to get involved with lawsuits for breach of privacy, which would
lead to excessive fines and a bad reputation. This can be related to many other
big companies and also be the background reasoning to why such companies are so
popular and trusted the way they are (Monavich, 2011, p. 2-4).
The first time men stepped on the Moon in
1969, was the earliest stage of a new ecological era, where Earth could be then
analysed as a whole and humanity could then start to predict massive and
smaller possible environmental changes. This moment in history was only
achievable through one of the most spectacular mediums of data collection at
the time, photography. Since then, the idea of capturing data that exposed
Earth’s ecological information has only developed and has helped humanity reach
a point where thirteen-thousand satellites are in orbit around the globe at
this right moment only to monitor its conditions (Gurevitch, 2013, p. 3-4). The
measurements taken to improve on Earth’s ecological system can only develop and
bring society a better future, thus, several aspects about data restriction
that involve environmental factors can be rather concerning, such as Google’s
“Street View”, which is also based on the collection of data but becomes
restricted due all of the lawsuits it is involved with (Monavich, 2011, p. 5).
Data distribution can be seen as a breach
of privacy to many people and there will always be ethical reasoning behind it,
however, an awareness of the rules that are already applied to companies that
manage such important information need to arise. Such restrictions could very
easily slow the process of self-humanity development and even affect
discoveries made about our own environment.
Bibliography:
Monavich, L. (2011). Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data. Retrieved April 25, 2013, from http://www.manovich.net/articles.php
Gurevitch, L. (2013). Google Warming.
From Media Ecology to Ecology as Media in Google Earth, p. 3-4.
Reisner, Y., & Watson, F. (2010). Architecture and the beauty: Conversations with architects about a
troubled relationship. Chichester, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons
Ltd.
Hagan, S. (2008). Digitalia:
Architecture and the digital, the environmental and the avant-garde. New
York, United States: Routledge.
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