Monthly Archives: June 2022

Memory as Signal

Benjamin N Jacobsen’s article in New Media and Society, When is the right time to remember?: Social media memories, temporality and the kairologic, explores the concerns of memory in socio-technical systems like Twitter and Facebook. The one thing that strikes me is the idea that the window that is used. Maybe it is a result […]

June 27, 2022 – 8:04 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in algorithms | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Strava, segments, and tracking

A few years ago, Strava visualised the GPS co-ordinates in their data and displayed the locations of secret bases. A change of privacy settings later and, apparently, all was secret again. The Guardian has just run a story on using segments and GPS locations to show individuals within the bases through re-purposing the segment function. […]

June 21, 2022 – 7:58 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in algorithms, Text Mining | Tagged | Comments (0)