Apophenia

Apophenia is the psychopathology of seeing meaningful patterns in unconnected, random data.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Mentioned in James' blog is the word Apophenia which never took off with the public because it originally described a condition of the mentally ill.

Pareidolia and Apophenia James Gurney 2008

Danah Boyd, a PhD student at UC Berkeley who is a well-known "social technologies" researcher, has a blog titled Apophenia, with a secondary title of as you might expect) "Making Connections Where None Previously Existed").

languagehat.com: APOPHENIA. 2005

Apophenia: I believe that geographic-dependent context will be the next key shift.

"I believe that geographic-dependent context will be the next key shift. GPS, mesh networks, articulated presence.." Ben Barren 2007

Apophenia: What worries me most is that my gut says that 2007 will involve far too many hyper-visible examples of bad-teen-behavior.

"Forget dirty laundry, we're talking a full inversion of the house." Ben Barren 2007

And there were occasional excursions to danah boyd's Best of Apophenia site for sociological insights into social networking, though that too was work related, and perhaps of questionable benefit.

Publishing a personal zeitgeist using data from Google Search History Jonathan Aquino 2007

Apophenia is the psychopathology of seeing meaningful patterns in unconnected, random data.

Your Saturday apophenia 2009

Warning: Email Sabbatical is Imminent .. and other random thoughts Apophenia via 43 Folders

Skip Post-Vacation Inbox Overload With An Email Sabbatical | Lifehacker Australia 2008

Apophenia: That's the big joke about the social media explosion. 1980s and 1990s researchers argued that the Internet would make race, class, gender, etc. extinct.

Archive 2006-12-01 Ben Barren 2006

Apophenia: That's the big joke about the social media explosion. 1980s and 1990s researchers argued that the Internet would make race, class, gender, etc. extinct.

"Nothing gets erased because it's all connected to the offline bodies that are heavily regulated on a daily basis." Ben Barren 2006