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On the eve of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect we, a university laboratory, marked the occasion with an interactive installation called Compliance. Data traces from Compliance were subsequently processed by the lab, here enacted in the form of a play. While much discussion has centered around modern ‘black-boxed’ processing of data, less attention has been paid to the value of the data itself, and whether it merits use. We draw on dramaturgical methods for both analysis and presentation [15], allowing for readers to imagine staging their own, different, versions of the event. Drawing on the ambiguous ontological status of (yet unexamined) data, we offer a discussion on the value of data, its use and non-use, as well as how to live with this ambivalence, continuously negotiating social contracts about our further conduct with the data.
Citation
Simy Kaur Gahoonia, Pedro Ferreira, Marisa Cohn, Line Henriksen, Katrine Meldgaard Kjær, Michael Hockenhull, Baki Cakici, Marie Blønd, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cæcilie Sloth Laursen, and Sonja Zell. 2020. Upon Not Opening The Black Box. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381813