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 maximally used. This means that targeting certain breeds with a variety of problems with the intention of helping them, can actually cause more harm than help. He seeks to argue that “racial statistics have not only come to represent the distribution of life chances in ways that continue to place African Americans at the bottom of the pile” (5) and then goes on to illustrate “some of the ways in which many of the same statistics are used to ensure that their status is less likely to improve” (5). He mentions this idea of “racial disparity” focusing only on African Americans while discussing racial coding as what he calls “panoptic type” has become “discriminatory technology and then states that as “it operates to the detriment of segments of the population” (7). In chapter 3 of his book iSpy, Mark Andrejevic discusses ideas about the origins of surveillance and power in the interactive age and how they are managed. He uses the vast knowledge of “scientific management pioneer” Frederick Taylor; inventor of the idea of Taylorization, throughout His chapter justifies the ideas of interactive media with notions such as the Taylor system, workspace management, remote monitoring, audience monitoring and consumption, and then directs his attention to the ideas of 'the rise of rating sector." The result of Andrejevic's work complements the idea that the idea of surveillance and monitoring regardless of a remote or intimate perspective is that "scientific management of consumption is based on constant contact"... half of the article.. ... also states that "this crisis was caused by politics, ultimately only politics can solve it", meaning that we may need to put legislation in place to keep our metadata exactly that, our metadata and not Internet companies that we are actively involved in every day. This would certainly help the situation, but we also need to remain aware of what exactly we post on the Internet and be aware that we may be targeted for certain consumer and data collection uses. Naughton asserts the idea that “we are all indebted to Snowden because he sacrificed his prospects for freedom and a 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 we should now perhaps try to learn from our past use on such sites in preparation for possible future problems.
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