Assignment:
Learning Goal: I'm working on a communications case study and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
Part 1- Data
Come up with random data to analyze (do not mention it is random data, act like it is your data) the data should be google Account, Calendar, Chrome, Contacts, Drive, Photos, and Gmail. Take a look through Your Activity, especially your Location History, Web & App Activity, and YouTube history. And also Facebook data that includes posts, activities, events, interactions, groups, etc. try to think like you are a young woman interested in typical young woman things.
Part 2 - Analysis
Now that you have spent some time examining your digital shadow, consider your data and how it reflects you and who you are. Were you surprised about the types of information that have been captured about you? What do these data say about you and who you are (hint: specifically look at the advertising options that are being shown to you)? Does examining these data evoke any particular emotions?
Writereport reflecting on and analyzing your own data and connecting it to the concepts that we have discussed in class, especially those around the data-human assemblage. Readings are attached. The following questions may help you to focus your analysis:
• How do these data reflect you as a data-human assemblage?
• Is your data a companion species? Do data-capturing devices become companion species? If so, how or why?
• Is your personal data distinct from you as aperson?
• How does interacting with your data align with conceptions of subjectivity and agency?
Should be 1,250 to 1,500 words in length (not including references), or 5 to 6 double-spaced. Use APA style for your in-text citations and reference list. Be sure to include a header on each page with your last name and page number.
Below are reading that can help: The first one is a class reading that you're going to use for references
If this does help you at all with creating/analyzing data- here are two articles my teacher just sent
Here are two articles that may help you interpret your Google and Facebook data:
This assignment is very opinion based and it's pretty much you trying to distinguish your data and what it essentially shows about you.