Did you give permission? Datafication in the mobile ecosystem
Did you give permission? Datafication in the mobile ecosystem
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10.1080/1369118x.2021.1877771
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2021-02
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Jennifer Pybus;Mark Coté
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作者：
Jennifer Pybus;Mark Coté
摘要我们的文章提出了一个细粒度的角度对技术对象的澄清。我们认为，这种跨学科的重点提供了一个更严格的物质基础的社会文化和政治经济影响的移动的演员扩大和扩展个人数据经济的批判性分析。我们提出了一个两部分的假设。首先，移动的正在使互联网进入一个更成熟的阶段。第二，通过检查移动的权限和嵌入式第三方服务（称为SDK（软件开发工具包））之间的关系，可以最好地理解这一阶段。我们的创新方法旨在为人文和社会科学研究人员培养更高的技术流畅性，并为非专家提供更多的代理机构，以各种方式，其中学术越来越多地包含我们的日常生活。我们继续（i）审查现有的技术和社会科学文献;（ii）介绍我们创建的平台和资源，其中包含7000多个应用程序的权限和SDK;以及（iii）介绍在2019年OrgCon数字版权会议上与柏林的非营利组织Tactical Tech举行的研讨会的初步结果。最后，我们呼吁对构成应用程序基础设施的技术对象进行微观透视。我们认为，只有对它们的生成能力有更深入的了解，才能提高我们对谷歌和Facebook等平台如何通过它们提供的应用服务扩展自动化的理解，从而在这个生态系统中实例化自己。
ABSTRACT Our article presents a finely granulated perspective on the technical objects of datafication. We contend that such cross-disciplinary focus provides a more rigorous material grounding for a critical analysis of the socio-cultural and political economic effects of mobile actors expanding and extending personal data economies. We propose a two-part hypothesis. First, that the mobile is enabling a more mature phase of datafication. Second, that this phase is best understood by examining the relationality between mobile permissions and embedded, third party services known as SDKs (software development kits). Our innovative method seeks to cultivate greater technical fluency for humanities and social science researchers and to offer non-experts greater agency over the myriad ways in which datafication increasingly subsumes our everyday lives. We proceed by (i) a review of existing technical and social scientific literatures; (ii) introducing the platform and resources we created, which holds the permissions and SDKs of over 7000 applications; and (iii) presenting preliminary findings from workshops held at 2019 OrgCon Digital Rights conference with Berlin based non-profit organisation, Tactical Tech. We conclude with a call for a microscopic perspective on the technical objects that comprise application infrastructures. We contend that only a more grounded understanding of their generative capacities can improve our understanding how datafication is extended in platforms like Google and Facebook via the app services they provide and thus instantiating themselves across this ecosystem.