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Skip to Thursday<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Platform Capitalism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlatform Capitalism,\u201d in Platform Capitalism, electronic edition, by Nick Srnicek, Theory Redux (Polity, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tosh, Kaitlin, and Michelle Inez Simon. \u201cThe X Effect: How the World\u2019s Richest Man Is Boosting the British Right.\u201d Sky News<\/em>, n.d. Accessed March 30, 2026. https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Platform Cooperative Consortium, https:\/\/platform.coop\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In-class activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Today’s slides<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data storytelling groups<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DS rubric<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Data Cooperatives as Catalysts for Collaboration, Data Sharing, and the (Trans)Formation of the Digital Commons”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Data Brokers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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What kind of new Pandora’s box do we open when we not only have these huge quantities of data, but we have tools that can start to scan and analyze patterns in unprecedented ways and at an unprecedented scale that you can never do from human analysts?<\/p>\u2014REP. WARREN DAVIDSON (R-OHIO)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rahul Kanwal and Kevin Walby, Tracking the Surveillance and Information Practices of Data Brokers: A Report (University of Winnipeg, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jude Joffe-Block, \u201cYour Data Is Everywhere. The Government Is Buying It without a Warrant,\u201d Technology, NPR, March 25, 2026, https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/25\/nx-s1-5752369\/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, Stuart A., and Charlie Warzel. \u201cTwelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy.\u201d Opinion. The New York Times<\/em>, December 19, 2019. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/12\/19\/opinion\/location-tracking-cell-phone.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XFA.PqhT.4K9YsoBcBsvA&smid=url-share<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In-class activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Today’s slides<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘This is what we were always scared of’: DOGE is building a surveillance state” (New York Times<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Privacy Organizations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n