{"id":4485,"date":"2020-11-02T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:22:24","slug":"browsing-data-and-facebook-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Browsing data and Facebook &#8220;me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(All data was from the past week October 25<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 November 1<sup>st<\/sup>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The data \u201cexhaust\u201d that not only generated the most data but was also the source that I most readily had access to was my browsing history. Though my browsing data belonged to Google, I was able to access and see it. However, the form <em>(see google browsing history below)<\/em> it was in was predetermined by Google, was not available to download in another form, and perhaps most importantly, did not tell me anything about the greater trends and patterns of my browsing history. In other words, the raw, singular pieces of data were there for me to access and see but what was not evident was what these individual pieces of data meant when they were aggregated together.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after using several tools to create data visualizations that my browser history began to take on more meaning as larger trends and patterns emerged. The first data visualization (<i>browsing history #1<\/i>) gives an overview of how many sites I visited within a one-hour chunk as well as which sites I visited the most. The second data visualization (<em>browsing history #2) <\/em>was another way to visualize time and browsing activity. The images on the right corresponded to four six-hour periods of time (12AM \u2013 6AM; 6AM-12PM; 12PM-6PM; 6PM-12AM) and the order of links that I clicked within those six-hour windows. These visualizations were able to show me not only when I tended to browse the Internet, but also where and how often. Scarily enough, I think I spend way too much time on a few, select websites (Blackboard, Facebook, any Google product, Reddit) where I am <em>passively <\/em>consuming information rather than actively and consciously engaging and creating information to share.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4485 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/browsing-history\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1442\" height=\"1154\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history.png 1442w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history-768x615.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1442px) 100vw, 1442px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4486'>\n\t\t\t\tgoogle browsing history\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/browsing-history-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history-1.png 652w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/browsing-history-1-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4487'>\n\t\t\t\tbrowsing history #1\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/screen-shot-2020-11-02-at-12-08-56-pm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"872\" height=\"1416\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.08.56-PM.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.08.56-PM.png 872w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.08.56-PM-185x300.png 185w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.08.56-PM-631x1024.png 631w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.08.56-PM-768x1247.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4493'>\n\t\t\t\tbrowsing history #2\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I also wanted to dive a little deeper to see what my \u201cpixelated self\u201d looks like on Facebook. They allowed me to download \u201cme,\u201d aka my past engagements from the past week in data. Something that stood out immediately was little data was available to me ( <em>see facebook data and filtered facebook data <\/em>). The data was already separated for me in discrete folders and categories. That data was embedded within individual html files that opened up to a webpage where, similar to my Google browsing history, I could see raw, singular pieces of data, but wasn\u2019t allowed to access a form of that data that would let me visualize larger and patterns and trends (<em>see html example and html opened<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-4485 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/facebook-before\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1424\" height=\"1758\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-before.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-before.png 1424w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-before-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-before-829x1024.png 829w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-before-768x948.png 768w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-before-1244x1536.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1424px) 100vw, 1424px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4490'>\n\t\t\t\tfacebook data\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/facebook-after\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1474\" height=\"1760\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-after.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-after.png 1474w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-after-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-after-858x1024.png 858w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-after-768x917.png 768w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/facebook-after-1286x1536.png 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1474px) 100vw, 1474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4489'>\n\t\t\t\tfiltered facebook data\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/html-example1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example1.png 720w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4491'>\n\t\t\t\thtml example\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/browsing-data-and-facebook-me\/html-example2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1256\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example2.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-4492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example2.png 1256w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example2-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example2-1024x468.png 1024w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2020\/11\/html-example2-768x351.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1256px) 100vw, 1256px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-4492'>\n\t\t\t\thtml opened\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In conclusion, neither small nor big data that Boyd and Crawford refer to are available to me in the form of digital data. The digital data that is available is in singular, concrete units that can\u2019t be easily aggregated and cross-referenced with other forms of digital data (i.e. I can\u2019t use some sort of programming language to reformat the data and form some sort of relationship between my browsing history and my Facebook data). By not allowing the relationship between pieces of data to form, the meaning and ability to contextualize singular, pieces of data as well as multiple datasets across my virtual self is taken away.<\/p>\n<p>I also think back to the Editor-in-Chief of Wired\u2019s comment: \u201cWho knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity (666).\u201d After collecting this data, it\u2019s clear that the <em>what <\/em>I am doing on the Internet is clearly available, but what is clearly lacking and immeasurable is the <em>why<\/em>. What does the data available say about me as a person beyond just merely describing my actions? \u00a0Will having more data lead to me to cross some line that will tell me something more about myself as a person or are those qualitative aspects of me as a person just inherently immeasurable? Or perhaps is it that the data that is necessary for me to understand the\u00a0<em>why\u00a0<\/em>just unavailable to me as a user because that&#8217;s where the value of the data is and is thus purposely kept unavailable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(All data was from the past week October 25th \u2013 November 1st) The data \u201cexhaust\u201d that not only generated the most data but was also the source that I most readily had access to was my browsing history. Though my browsing data belonged to Google, I was able to access and see it. However, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}