{"id":1619,"date":"2019-03-05T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2019-03-05T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:46:11","slug":"what-do-metrics-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/what-do-metrics-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Metrics Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist <a href=\"https:\/\/bengrosser.com\/about\/\">Ben Grosser<\/a> on the cultural, social, and political effects of software:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Facebook interface is filled with numbers that count users\u2019 friends, comments, and \u201clikes.\u201d &#8230; Audit culture and business ontology enculturate a reliance on quantification to evaluate whether that desire has been fulfilled. These conditions compel Facebook\u2019s users to reimagine both self and friendship in quantitative terms, and situates them within a <em>graphopticon<\/em>, a self-induced audit of metricated social performance where the many watch the metrics of the many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Ben Grosser on the cultural, social, and political effects of software: The Facebook interface is filled with numbers that count users\u2019 friends, comments, and \u201clikes.\u201d &#8230; Audit culture and business ontology enculturate a reliance on quantification to evaluate whether that desire has been fulfilled. These conditions compel Facebook\u2019s users to reimagine both self and&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/what-do-metrics-want\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}