Young people are the canaries in our contemporary data mine. They are at the forefront of complex negotiations over privacy, property, and security in environments saturated with information systems. The productive and entertaining promises of proprietary media have led to widespread adoption among youth whose daily activities now generate troves of data that are mined for governance and profit. As they text, email, network, and search within these proprietary ecologies, young people’s identity configurations link up with modes of capitalist production. The MyDigitalFootprint.ORG Project was thus initiated to unpack and engage young people’s material social relations with and within proprietary ecologies through participatory action design research.
Title: The MyDigitalFootprint.ORG Project
Team: Gregory Donovan and The Youth Design and Research Collective
Link: http://mydigitalfootprint.org