“We use the data to adjust the stories we already tell ourselves about our lives, and we use our stories about our lives to adjust, excuse or understand our data”
“The most important thing about today’s cryptopticon, Vaidhyanathan (2011) writes, is that ‘we don’t know all the ways in which we are being watched or profiled – we simply
know that we are. And we don’t regulate our behavior under the gaze of surveillance. Instead, we don’t seem to care’”
I think that for the most part, my “data self” is slanted toward what I do for school, and what I do for work, which is mostly related to music and Jewish Studies.
The Treehouse - Schirmer 