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Essay / Data Collection - 1146
The topics covered in Gandy's article focus on the notion of "racially coded data" (1) and how data is translated into information that may or may not be used to the maximum. This means that targeting certain breeds with a certain number of problems in an attempt to help them may actually cause more harm than help. He attempts to argue that "racial statistics have not only become a representation of the distribution of life chances in a way that continues to place African Americans at the bottom of the ladder" (5), then he goes on to illustrate “some of the ways in which many of these same statistics are used to ensure that their status is less likely to improve” (5). He mentions this idea of a "racial disparity" focusing on only African Americans discussing racial coding while what he calls "panopticon type" has become a "discriminatory technology", then he states that the way it “works to the detriment of segments of the population”. (7). In Mark Andrejevic's Chapter 3 of his book iSpy, he discusses ideas about the origins of surveillance and power in the interactive age and how they are managed. It uses the extensive knowledge of “scientific management pioneer” Frederick Taylor; inventor of the idea of Taylorization, throughout his chapter while justifying the ideas of interactive media with notions such as the Taylor system, management in the workspace, remote monitoring, monitoring of audiences and their consumption, then directing its attention to the ideas of "the rise of the rating industry." The result of Andrejevic's work complements the idea that the idea of surveillance and control, regardless of distance or intimate perspective, is that "scientific management of consumption is based on constant contact".. .... middle of article... ... also states that "this crisis was caused by politics and, ultimately, only politics can fix it", meaning that it may take -be put in place legislation to preserve exactly that our metadata, our metadata and not the Internet companies that we are actively involved in on a daily basis. This would certainly improve the situation, but we also need to remain conscious of what exactly we post on the internet and be aware that we may be targeted for certain consumption and data collection uses. Naughton asserts that "we are all indebted to Snowden because he sacrificed his prospects of freedom and normal life so that the rest of us would know what happened to the technologies we now depend on." From this series of events and our new knowledge, perhaps we should now try to learn lessons from our past use on such sites in preparation for possible future problems..