The point about metadata and its lack of objectivity from this past week really stood out to me as well! It is a reminder that we must always think critically about information we are presented with, asking ourselves questions about who is writing it, why they are writing it, who the audience is, etc. It is also a reminder that, as you have…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing all of these resources! It was really helpful to look through the different tools that we may be able to incorporate in our project. It might be interesting for us to use the admission book data to analyze how offenses changed over time, and to think about what types of crimes became the most common reasons for incarceration…[Read more]

I really like the ideas that you shared! I also think it would be interesting to study the language used in the records to describe the prisoners, and to think about this language in context as a reflection of society and norms of the time. I would be curious to look into what type of information is recorded about incarcerated people in the…[Read more]

I am also concerned about the issues that you brought up in your post having to do with potentially representing certain individuals or groups in a harmful way when recording history and the lack of consent obtained to use experiences/stories of real people. I think that when creating a project that discusses current issues and topics,…[Read more]

It is really interesting to consider a society where we do away with the idea of privacy altogether, and have open access to each other’s data! It makes me sad in a way to think of the possibility that a system whereby public data on everyone is free could lead to a much more effective way to enact social change (by relying on technological s…[Read more]