Porngram: a Google Trends for niche sexual interests powered by ‘sexualitics’
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a Google Trends-like tool called Porngram that maps the evolution of keywords in the titles of 800,000 porn videos.
Forgetting the Internet
A short story imagines life after the internet forgets.
Even though it was sunny, I knew something was wrong the moment I woke up the day of The Ruling. I didn’t check the news, I didn’t read the paper, I just felt something in the air—an electric current of negativity buzzing in my back pocket where I keep my phone. All morning it shook. It vibrated until it died.
Off Grid
Off Grid is an adventure, satire and stealth game about a mishap antihero. You play an everyman pencil pusher, who is oblivious to the city’s prying and spying, corporate-sponsored government until a series of dark events unfold.
The contemporary storyline follows real-world events surrounding data privacy, and gameplay utilises unique mechanics that allow you to manipulate the world and people around you with the data they unwittingly leave behind.
A bite of Me by Federico Zannier
Federico Zannier has data mined himself and sold his own personal data on Kickstarter. But how much is he worth?
Hot on Your Trail: Privacy, Your Data, and Who Has Access to It.
Every day, companies are gathering and sharing information about you, even when you aren’t logged in.
BBC “Virtual Revolution” – Episode 3 : The cost of free
In the 3rd episode of this four-part series, Dr Aleks Krotoski gives the lowdown on how commerce has colonised the web and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be ‘free’ sites and services in hidden ways. She is joined by some of the most influential business leaders of today’s web, including Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon), Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google), Chad Hurley (CEO of YouTube), Bill Gates, Martha Lane Fox and Reed Hastings (CEO of Netflix).
Aleks Krotoski also explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and what this may mean for our notions of privacy.
How Facebook Teams Up With Data Brokers to Show You Targeted Ads
This post explained where data brokers get their data, what information they share with Facebook, or what this means for your privacy. Who has your information, how they get it, and what they do with it?
Facebook Adds Partner Categories To Its Ad Targeting, Using Acxiom, DataLogix, and Epsilon To Reach You About What You Buy
Facebook has added partner categories to its ad targeting. Users can now be reached by what they buy through Acxiom, DataLogix, and Epsilon data.
Facebook Is Using You
The magnitude of online information Facebook has available about each of us for targeted marketing is stunning.
Facebook made $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, 85 percent of its total revenue. Yet Facebook’s inventory of data and its revenue from advertising are small potatoes compared to some others. Google took in more than 10 times as much.
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