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Performativity of
(Biomedical)Data
Darren Reed, SATSU, York
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Overview
1.Public Life of Data (PLoD), Outline ESRCbid(Manchester, Open
University, Durham, York)
2.Analytic Schema; concepts and concerns
3.Performativities of data4.Case studies
5.Re-imagining BLISS as performative
1.Restro-spective, pro-spective, per-spective
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1. PLoD
Existing and New regimes of data
From Government to Commercialinterests
From Survey and census to profiling,data mining, risk scoring
etc.
Surveillance vs digitally activecitizens
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...new population data techniques, and projects likeGov2
crowdsourcing and e-borders, embody adigitally active citizen, a
subject whose onlinebiography, social and transactional data are
not
simply traces left behind, but data which migrate,transform and
act. Data now go travelling betweendatabase and real world, between
agents, objectsand media, in complex and recursive patterns. In
short, to consider the contemporary turn to data asprimarily and
specifically a way of governing life isto miss the profoundly
lively, liveable and public lifeof data itself.
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Project objectives
The life-world of data. To generate newempirical knowledge of,
and conceptual tools forunderstanding, the novel modes and forms
ofdata as they are created, mined, analysed,integrated, shared and
deployed
Data subject, objects and publics. ... how people,things and
populations become newly attentiveand attended to via data
practices
Data and method ... [potential for] critical socialscience
engagement with new modes of dataand new forms of data life
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Projects
1.Dataworlds: new data devices
2.Data profiles: commercial data mapping
3.Data memories: interactive heritage
4.Data assemblages in higher education
5.Data bio-metries, the public lives of biodata
6.Data derivatives: border security and flood
risk
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2. Analytic Schema
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Public / Life / Data
Analytic Case/Category Core concepts
1. Public-Private: life marshaledFluidity, translation, and
movement of
data as it
becomes capta in governance,administration
and commerce, e.g. bio-graphies, bio-metries,
info-demiology
1. Performativity
2. Authorisation/authenticity
3.Exclusion/Access/engagement
4. Sous/Sur-veillance
(capta/data)(exterior/interior)(Dodge &Kitchen, 2005)
2. Private-Public: life createdProduction of pre-formated data,
e.g.post-codes and their recombination e.g.mashups in governance
and commercee.g. mosaic
3. Open-ended: life unbounded
New domains of public/private questionthe distinction;
plasticity, e.g. social
Analytic Schema
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Key concepts and concerns
Performativity
Authorisation/Authenticity
Exclusion/Access/Engagement Sous/sur-veillance (Dodge &
Kitchin,
2005) [quote]
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3. Performativities
Bio-metries Bio-graphies
Data are: representations,measurements, they can becodified,
calculated, and compared(Lyotard, 1984 technological
criterion)
Tend to be: capta
Performance as:Effectiveness, efficiency, efficient-
performativity (Reed, 2009)
Data as: expressive, spontaneous,emergent, reflexive (enacting
Law& Urry, 2004), mobile, contingent,relational
Tend to be: datum e.g. given up,given-off
Performance as:Flow, emergent biographic-
performativity (Reed, 2009)
Of course, there is biographical capture but, also data
gotravelling, therefore bio-metries have biographies too !
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4. Case Studies
Domestic Assistive technology,
Mobile health/assistive devices
Direct to customer genetic tests Biobanks
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TunstallADLife
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Wii Fit
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Nike +
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Apples External Accessory framework
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4. Re-imaging BLISS
BLISS - Bus Location and InformationSubSystem
GPS tracking of buses
Bus priority through traffic lights
real-time passenger information
(bus stop, SMS, Web) New basis for timetable
creation/management
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BLISS Bus Location and InformationSubSystem
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Construction of a late bus
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Bus biography gettingpriority
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Managing BLISS - Life-marshaled
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Public privacy
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life created? : written timetable
life marshalled?: GPS tracking ofbus and driver;
managementreports; leading to new timetables
life unbounded?: PIPs, ConsoleScreen, Web presentation
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performativity biography & [bio]metry=late-bus -- passenger
information; trafficlight priority;
authentification new governing of buses
exclusion/access/engagement management
view; public view, but no driver view
sous/sur-veillance capta of bus, given-offbehaviour; resistance
to giving-up data
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Thoughts, comments, question?
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