Reveal (December 19–20)
Web trackers are pieces of code that run in the background of a web pages to collect and share information about users activities. Online tracking is an integral component of the internet’s business model and it plays a vital role in a larger industry which profits out of our data [1]. During this chapter the students had to browse the web for one hour and extract and visualize the trackers that followed them. See an example of the output.
Tools: Mozilla Firefox, TrackTrackers, RawGraphs, Adobe Illustrator, Ai2Html, Github
Observe (November 21–22 ). Observe, deconstruct and describe extensively what you see while you are performing an action on a digital platform.
Alter (December 5–6). Modify the visual elements of a graphical interface developing a web extension.
Reveal (December 19–20). Extract and visualize the invisible trackers that follow you in one hour of web browsing.
Re-publish (January 30–31). Analyse and re-publish data coming from a digital platform to renew our understanding of a phenomenon.