When white fears become Big Data: racist emotions and the populists who love them At the end of last year I started exploring issues surrounding Big …
Surveys, vigilance and the myth of neutral data In mid December I started a series of explorations on Big Data. I hoped to touch on often …
Private Internet and Public Streets The peak in search for doxxing on the same week that Adrian Chen published his report Last week I published a very …
A simplified political history of Big Data In the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, Victoria Pitts-Taylor traces the racial classification and subsequent quantifications of human beings …
Tourist Attractions, Displacements and Feminist Resistance When I was invited to open Queer Sidesteppers & Feminist Boss Ladies, I found the serendipity amusing. For the …
Europe’s racist far right is not on the rise. It’s always been there. For how long does Europe’s racist right need to “rise” before it is …
Political Strategy and Buzzfeed’s analysis of “the Twitter problem” Wonderful GIF courtesy of Tauriq Moosa I often hear that the aggressive elements of the right do not …