Surveillance Graphs. Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures (Saunders)

Jonny L. Saunders, 2023 #article

The past, present, and future of knowledge graphs give us the pieces to articulate a properly human data infrastructure as vulgar linked data. Predicated on relationality, heterogeneity, distribution of power, and vernacular expression, vulgar linked data infrastructures attempt to empower people to socially organize information in a truly decentralized sociotechnological commons, rather than empowering systems to rent knowledge organization for profit.