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    [1]    From: Sananda Sahoo <sananda.sahoo@gmail.com>
           Subject: Article on data imaginaries (27)

    [2]    From: Henry Schaffer <hes@ncsu.edu>
           Subject: Writing without words (18)


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        Date: 2023-11-30 07:50:32+00:00
        From: Sananda Sahoo <sananda.sahoo@gmail.com>
        Subject: Article on data imaginaries

Dear all,

An article that had been in the works for a long time just dropped in the
ether:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/article/biometric-datas-
colonial-imaginaries-continue-in-aadhaars-minimal-
data/2A70115E83C9C9D8CD440D683EF05287

I discuss and argue how data imaginaries develop and are used to justify
data analysis methods and, at times, governance through a couple of
specific cases. I hope you will find it an interesting and useful read.

It does take a village to raise an article. I am grateful to all who helped
me along the way.

Have a lovely evening,

Sananda

Sananda Sahoo 
Ph.D. Candidate, Media Studies
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Western University
ssahoo3@uwo.ca
@SanandaSahoo


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        Date: 2023-11-27 13:00:00+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer <hes@ncsu.edu>
        Subject: Writing without words

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk9395
A computational linguist probes the relationship between graphical symbol
systems and language

A book review of
Symbols
An Evolutionary History from the Stone Age to the Future
by  Richard Sproat
Publisher https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26809-0
"Gives the first systematic treatment of non-linguistic symbol systems

Presents a concrete neural model of how writing evolved from a prior
non-linguistic system

Describes differences and common confusions between non-linguistic symbol
systems and writing systems"

--henry


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