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PS Talks: An Interview with Klaus Bruhn Jensen

March 24, 2014 • by Gisela Albuquerque Weise
This video is intended to be the first of a series called “PS Talks,” as part of the Public Seminar efforts "to provoke critical and informed discussion by any means necessary." Jeffrey Goldfarb interviews Klaus Bruhn Jensen, exploring problems surrounding Big Data and the questions of ethics in the new media ...
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Big Data, Little Music

March 24, 2014 • by Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

Established musicians are speaking up about the state of the music world, and they are not happy. They report that there’s no money available to make music, and no money to be made from it. Some have blamed fans for killing the business, by insisting on getting music for free. ...

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A Ludic Century?

Games, Aesthetics, the twenty-first century

November 22, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark
Could we call this a ‘ludic century’? That’s the provocation of game designer Eric Zimmerman and game journalist Heather Chaplin. His ‘Manifesto for a Ludic Century’ and her commentary on it have lit up the game world like a pinball machine. But I think their provocation calls for a wider ...
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The Big Issue with Big Data: Who Do You Think I Am?

November 14, 2013 • by Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Big data is all the buzz in business and government. The assumption is that meta-data -- data about who communicates with whom, when, where, in which sequences and networks -- can generate ever more comprehensive and granular accounts of everyday life and social practices across global space and in real ...

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