This article introduces the idea of a 'pedagogy of regret' to illustrate some of the inadequacies in recent government policy initiatives which target young women's drinking practices. In the Australian context, the National Binge Drinking Campaign warned young women: 'Don't turn a night out into a nightmare'. A similar British campaign advised individualized drinkers to 'know their limits'. The rhetorical appeal of these campaigns hinges on the notion of regret: young women will lament the excesses of hedonistic indulgence the morning after given the inevitable consequences of risky behaviour. This paper shows the limitations of such an appeal through a 'sympathetic online cultural studies' approach, which we use to explore the nexus between contemporary drinking cultures and the social networking site Facebook. Ordinary and mundane uses of Facebook -status updates anticipating the weekend, mobile posts in the midst of intoxication, photo uploading and album dissemination the morning after -reveal the anticipatory pleasures, everyday preparations and retrospective bonding involved in hedonistic and risky alcohol consumption. This demonstrates the fundamentally social dimensions accompanying young women's drinking. The enjoyment derived from sharing the 'risky' and 'regrettable' experience on Facebook is part of ongoing narratives between girls. Such pleasures, which are increasingly mediated by social networking sites, confound the notion that young women are haunted by inevitable regret and remorse. This paper introduces the idea of a 'pedagogy of regret' to illustrate some of the limitations in current policy discourse targeted at young people, 1 particularly young women. In two separate and recent examples -British and Australian Government campaigns to address the problematic rise of 'binge drinking', 2 and ongoing concerns over use of the social networking site Facebook -a similar tendency can be seen to depict each activity in terms of risk. The additional assumption is that mobilizing an appropriate level of regret among individuals will lead to greater mindfulness and responsible behaviour. Building on recent research into binge drinking and the night-time economy in both Australia and the UK, 3 this paper develops a cultural studies approach to understand young women's leisure activities, drawing attention to popular representations, lived experiences and their interplay. Acknowledging the significant pleasures to be found in social networking online (boyd 2007; Driscoll and Gregg 2008a;Kelly, Pomerantz, and Currie 2006;Willett 2008) and in practices of hedonistic drug and alcohol consumption (Guise and Gill 2007; Moore 2010; Race 2009), we suggest that both situations offer spaces of relief and respite for marginal identities, namely young, working-class women.

This paper analyses the rise of 'hackathons'-intensive code-and data-sharing events in which participants are inspired to accomplish specific challenges-to understand their role in the ecosystem for app development and the qualities of work they promote. Charting the transformation of hacking from dangerous activity to patriotic calling, it considers the popularity of civic hackathons as a means to rebuild the social in times of economic constraint. The work involved in the civic hackathon presents a new development in the history of sacrificial labour supplementing creative industries, a bridge between the 'free labour' foundational to the early internet and the practice of spec work in design. When the hackathon is advertised as civic-minded voluntarism, the labour is doubly discounted.

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This paper focuses first on the scopophilic aspects of large scale data visualizationthe fantasy of command and control through seeing-and places these in relation to key sites and conventions inside the tech industry. John Caldwell's notion of "industrial reflexivity" provides a framework to explain the charismatic power and performative effects that attend representations of data as a visual spectacle. Drawing on twelve months of personal experience working for a large technology company, and observations from a number of relevant showcases, conferences, and events, I take a "production studies" approach to understand the forms of common sense produced in industry settings. I then offer two examples of data work understood as a new kind of "below the line" labor. KeywordsBig data, data work, data sweat, below the line, scale, industry research Accounting for the spectacle of Big Data 1 entails understanding the aesthetic pleasure and visual allure of witnessing large data sets at scale. This paper identifies the scopophilic tendency underwriting key sites and conventions inside the tech industry, which pivot on large scale data set visualization. I use John Caldwell's (2008) notion of "industrial reflexivity" to explain the charismatic power and performative effects that attend representations of data as a visual spectacle, namely, the fantasy of command and control through seeing (Halpern 2014). Drawing on twelve months of personal experience working for a large technology company, and observations from a number of relevant showcases, conferences, and events, this "production studies" approach (Mayer et al. 2009) illustrates the forms of common sense produced in industry settings. 2 Due to the proprietary nature of high tech, few scholars have access to the points of ideological and intellectual transfer in which the promises of Big Data are