The Interaction of Privacy and Autonomy in the Digital Age Symposium - Session 4

Abstract

Yanni Loukissas - TITLE: "All Data Are Local". In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local, we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at hand, for audiences that are conditioned to receive them. The term data set implies something discrete, complete, and portable, but it is none of those things. Examining a series of data sources important for understanding the state of public life in the United States, Loukissas shows us how to analyze data settings rather than data sets.