Social Relations as Data and Metadata

Manuel Portela

doi:10.4000/eces.2251

Abstract

This is the text of the lecture “Social relations as data and metadata,” originally presented at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, during the 2nd International Graduate Conference in English and American Studies, titled “Interventions: Private Voices and Public Spaces”, held on May 2-3, 2014. In this print version, all video and audio files used in the presentation were replaced by evocative images of those audiovisual elements. In order to preserve the memory of the o...

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SOCIAL RELATIONS AS DATA AND METADATA. This is the text of the lecture “Social relations as data and metadata,” originally presented at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, during the 2nd International Graduate Conference in English and American Studies, titled “Interventions: Private Voices and Public Spaces”, held on May 2-3, 2014
“Software systems can be described as forms of discipline and control that transcode our social relations in terms of their data models and algorithms.”
[At this moment, the speaker projects a video with the song “Space Oddity,” recorded onboard the International Space Station by commander Chris Hadfield

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Introduction

This is the text of the lecture “Social relations as data and metadata,” originally presented at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, during the 2nd International Graduate Conference in English and American Studies, titled “Interventions: Private Voices and Public Spaces”, held on May 2-3, 2014. [At this moment, the speaker projects a video produced by NATS (National Air Traffic Services) which visualizes all incoming and outgoing flights in the European air space during the day. The speaker remains silent for some time (10-15 seconds) after the video starts playing.

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