I think we’ve talked about this a little in class, but I really like how much you’re emphasizing our prerogative to avoid making this project backward-looking, although we’ll be working with archives. Incorporating work that projects like “13th” have done in exposing the inherent racism, targeted criminalization, and maltreatment in modern prisons…[Read more]

This is really interesting because it goes back to our discussion in class that everything has bias — humanistic interpretation as well as digital interpretation. Reading your post, I think I do agree that we can “trust” our own interpretation/analysis of a text/archive/data better, because at least we know our own biases, while relying on s…[Read more]

I agree that this art installation felt a little out of place in the ESP narrative. If the audio tour was exploiting the prison and its inmates for entertainment values/”scare” factors/etc, then this installation was almost exploiting these lives for sympathy — in a kind of offhand, hidden way, because this was the only memorial to these lives (…[Read more]

Yes! This is such a scary yet fascinating idea. Obviously, technology will move forward from this point. How will our data be collected? Just like Manisha said, it’s almost laughable to think that people 300 years in the future would want to read our diaries, receipts, class notes — what could future generations get out of that material that w…[Read more]

I think it comes down to the differences between commercialization of data and the use of data for the public good. Although this distinction is nuanced (who gets to decide the differences between the goals of “commercialization” and “public good,” and moreover, what are the definitions of both of these concepts, and who came up with them?)…[Read more]