COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2021), 279 pp.
"In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Featuring stories of invisibility, injustice, hope and resistance, this book gives voice to communities at the margins in the Global South and beyond. The multilingual, polycentric and pluriversal narration invites the reader to enact and experience “Big Data from the South(s)” as a decolonial lens to read the pandemic." (Back cover)
Introduction: COVID-19 seen from the land of otherwise / Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré & Silvia Masiero, 14
I. HUMAN INVISIBILITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COUNTING
1 A Widening Data Divide: COVID-19 and the Global South / Stefania Milan & Emiliano Treré, 24
2 COVID-19 Pandemic and Biopolitics in Latin America / Silvio Waisbord & María Soledad Segura, 29
3 European Stereotypes in Times of COVID-19: The 'Frugal Four' and the 'Irresponsible South' / Luiza Bialasiewicz, 33
4 The Trouble of Visualizing COVID-19 During a Nation-wide Lockdown in South Africa / Adriaan Odendaal, 39
5 Riesgos e Incertidumbres en las Aplicaciones Para el Rastreo de Contagios / Javier Sánchez-Monedero, 43
6 Surveillance in the time of COVID-19: The case of the Indian contact tracing app Aarogya Setu / Soumyo Das, 57
II. PERPETUATED VULNERABILITIES AND INEQUALITIES
7 La Otra Epidemia: Los Feminicidios que no se Cuentan / Teresa Villaseñor, 62
8 The LGBTQ+ Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil / Ricardo H. D. Rohm & José Otávio A. L. Martins, 65
9 The Dilemma Of Undocumented Migrants Invisible To Covid-19 Counting / Annalisa Pelizza, Stefania Milan & Yoren Lausberg, 70
10 Disrupting "business as usual": COVID-19 and platform labour / Niels van Doorn, Eva Mos & Jelke Bosma, 79
11 The Role of a Gig-Worker During Crisis: Consequences of COVID-19 on Food Delivery Workers in South India / Shyam Krishna, 84
12 Gerenciando Incertezas às Próprias Custas: Motoristas Uber sob a Pandemia no Brasil / Ana Guerra, 88
13 COVID-19 and its Impact on Marginalised Communities in Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines / Irene Poetranto & Justin Lau, 95
14 Fuera de Alcance: Educación a Distancia en Zonas Rurales Peruanas Durante la Pandemia / Karla Zavala Barreda, 102
15 COVID-19 in the UK: The Exacerbation of Inequality and a Digitally-Based Response / Massimo Ragnedda & Maria Laura Ruiu, 106
16 Africa's Responses to COVID-19: An Early Data Science View / Vukosi Marivate, Elaine Nsoesie & Herkulaas MVE Combrink, 110
III. DATAFIED SOCIAL POLICIES
17 Silent Silencing: A Survivor's Reflection on Domestic Violence During COVID-19 / Anonymous, 113
18 Beyond Touchscreens: The Perils of Biometric Social Welfare in Lockdown / Silvia Masiero, 116
19 On Not Being Visible to the State: The Case of Peru / Diego Cerna Aragón, 120
20 The Case of the Solidarity Income in Colombia: The Experimentation With Data on Social Policy During the Pandemic / Joan Lopéz, 126
21 A Pandemia e a Nova Ordem Sociodigital no Sul Global: O Caso de São Paulo / Larissa G. de Magalhães, 129
22 COVID-19 Data on the Fringes: The Scottish Story / Angela Daly/Aingeal Ní Dhálaigh, 135
23 Pandemic Paternalism: A Reflection on Indigenous Data from Aotearoa / Donna Cormack & Tahu Kukutai, 141
24 When Health Code becomes Health Gradient: Safety or Social Control? / Yiran Zhao, 145
25 Data Cudgel or how to Generate Corona-Compliance in Israel / Alex Gekker & Anat Ben-David, 149
26 Making Sense of the Pandemic Through Data: The Italian Case / Tiziano Bonini, 153
27 Contact Tracing Apps and "Good Data"? The Case of Australia's COVIDSafe app / Alexandra Elliott, 157
IV. TECHNOLOGICAL RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE DATAFIED PANDEMIC
28 Solutionism, Surveillance, Borders and Infrastructures in the "Datafied Pandemic" / Philip Di Salvo, 164
29 COVID-19 and the Stripping of Power from the Edges / Niels ten Oever, 171
30 The Russian "Sovereign Internet" Facing COVID-19 / Francesca Musiani, Olga Bronnikova, Françoise Daucé, Ksenia Ermoshina, Bella Ostromooukhova & Anna Zaytseva, 174
31 Alternative Perspectives on Relationality, People and Technology During a Pandemic: Zenzeleni Networks in South Africa / Nic Bidwell & Sol Luca de Tena, 179
32 L'Imperialismo delle Piattaforme nella Pandemia: Il Ruolo degli Utenti di YouTube nell'Analisi della Moderazione dei Contenuti in Lingue "Altre" / Claudio Agosti, 184
33 Living with Instalive in Iran: Social Media use in Authoritarian Countries During the Pandemic / Hossein Kermani & Maria Faust, 192
34 COVID-19 and the Argentine Theatre / Nicolás Fuster, 195
35 COVID-19 and Non-Personal Data in the Indian Context: On the Normative Ideal of Public Interest / Preeti Raghunath, 200
36 Argentina-Brasil: La Resignificación del uso de la Tecnología en Épocas de Pandemia / Julián Cordoba Pivotto, 203
37 A Brazilian Cautionary Tale on Pandemic Negationism: Open Data is an Essential Safeguard for Evidence-Based Policy-Making / Nicolo Zingales, 207
38 Towards Civic Data Policies: Participatory Safeguards in COVID-19 Times / Arne Hintz, 212
V. PANDEMIC SOLIDARITIES AND RESISTANCE FROM BELOW
39 In Memory of COVID-19 in China: Forms of Digital Resistance Towards Censorship / Kinoko Merini, 216
40 Tejidos Comunitarios Desde los Márgenes: Las Cajas de Resistencia Como Herramienta Autónoma y Autoorganizada en Tiempos de Necesidad / Marta Espuny Contreras, 221
41 Citizen Sensing and Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: Engaging with COVID-19 and Climate Change / Marie-Catherine Petersmann & Anna Berti Suman, 225
42 Liberating COVID-19 Data with Volunteers in Brazil / Peter Füssy, 241
43 La Marcha Digital de las Madres de los Desaparecidos en México / Thomas Aureliani, 246
44 Brazilian Counter-Surveillance Collective Action in a DataSensitive era: The Case of #VidasNegrasImportam / Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes, 249
45 Rescatar lo Común. Redes de cuidados en España / Irene Ortiz, 253
46 COVID-19 in Argentina: When the Micro-Practices of Activism fit in a WhatsApp Message / Raquel Tarullo, 256
47 Under Other Skies: Astronomy as a Tool to Face COVID-19-Induced Isolation in the Indigenous Village of Aldeia Verde, Brazil / Arianna Cortesi, Claudia Magnani, Roberto Romero, Paula C.P. Silva, Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, Ana Maria R. Gomes, 259
48 Fighting for Feminist COVID-19 Figures: A Call for Feminist Data Visualizations During the Pandemic / Erinne Paisley, 263
I. HUMAN INVISIBILITIES AND THE POLITICS OF COUNTING
1 A Widening Data Divide: COVID-19 and the Global South / Stefania Milan & Emiliano Treré, 24
2 COVID-19 Pandemic and Biopolitics in Latin America / Silvio Waisbord & María Soledad Segura, 29
3 European Stereotypes in Times of COVID-19: The 'Frugal Four' and the 'Irresponsible South' / Luiza Bialasiewicz, 33
4 The Trouble of Visualizing COVID-19 During a Nation-wide Lockdown in South Africa / Adriaan Odendaal, 39
5 Riesgos e Incertidumbres en las Aplicaciones Para el Rastreo de Contagios / Javier Sánchez-Monedero, 43
6 Surveillance in the time of COVID-19: The case of the Indian contact tracing app Aarogya Setu / Soumyo Das, 57
II. PERPETUATED VULNERABILITIES AND INEQUALITIES
7 La Otra Epidemia: Los Feminicidios que no se Cuentan / Teresa Villaseñor, 62
8 The LGBTQ+ Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil / Ricardo H. D. Rohm & José Otávio A. L. Martins, 65
9 The Dilemma Of Undocumented Migrants Invisible To Covid-19 Counting / Annalisa Pelizza, Stefania Milan & Yoren Lausberg, 70
10 Disrupting "business as usual": COVID-19 and platform labour / Niels van Doorn, Eva Mos & Jelke Bosma, 79
11 The Role of a Gig-Worker During Crisis: Consequences of COVID-19 on Food Delivery Workers in South India / Shyam Krishna, 84
12 Gerenciando Incertezas às Próprias Custas: Motoristas Uber sob a Pandemia no Brasil / Ana Guerra, 88
13 COVID-19 and its Impact on Marginalised Communities in Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines / Irene Poetranto & Justin Lau, 95
14 Fuera de Alcance: Educación a Distancia en Zonas Rurales Peruanas Durante la Pandemia / Karla Zavala Barreda, 102
15 COVID-19 in the UK: The Exacerbation of Inequality and a Digitally-Based Response / Massimo Ragnedda & Maria Laura Ruiu, 106
16 Africa's Responses to COVID-19: An Early Data Science View / Vukosi Marivate, Elaine Nsoesie & Herkulaas MVE Combrink, 110
III. DATAFIED SOCIAL POLICIES
17 Silent Silencing: A Survivor's Reflection on Domestic Violence During COVID-19 / Anonymous, 113
18 Beyond Touchscreens: The Perils of Biometric Social Welfare in Lockdown / Silvia Masiero, 116
19 On Not Being Visible to the State: The Case of Peru / Diego Cerna Aragón, 120
20 The Case of the Solidarity Income in Colombia: The Experimentation With Data on Social Policy During the Pandemic / Joan Lopéz, 126
21 A Pandemia e a Nova Ordem Sociodigital no Sul Global: O Caso de São Paulo / Larissa G. de Magalhães, 129
22 COVID-19 Data on the Fringes: The Scottish Story / Angela Daly/Aingeal Ní Dhálaigh, 135
23 Pandemic Paternalism: A Reflection on Indigenous Data from Aotearoa / Donna Cormack & Tahu Kukutai, 141
24 When Health Code becomes Health Gradient: Safety or Social Control? / Yiran Zhao, 145
25 Data Cudgel or how to Generate Corona-Compliance in Israel / Alex Gekker & Anat Ben-David, 149
26 Making Sense of the Pandemic Through Data: The Italian Case / Tiziano Bonini, 153
27 Contact Tracing Apps and "Good Data"? The Case of Australia's COVIDSafe app / Alexandra Elliott, 157
IV. TECHNOLOGICAL RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE DATAFIED PANDEMIC
28 Solutionism, Surveillance, Borders and Infrastructures in the "Datafied Pandemic" / Philip Di Salvo, 164
29 COVID-19 and the Stripping of Power from the Edges / Niels ten Oever, 171
30 The Russian "Sovereign Internet" Facing COVID-19 / Francesca Musiani, Olga Bronnikova, Françoise Daucé, Ksenia Ermoshina, Bella Ostromooukhova & Anna Zaytseva, 174
31 Alternative Perspectives on Relationality, People and Technology During a Pandemic: Zenzeleni Networks in South Africa / Nic Bidwell & Sol Luca de Tena, 179
32 L'Imperialismo delle Piattaforme nella Pandemia: Il Ruolo degli Utenti di YouTube nell'Analisi della Moderazione dei Contenuti in Lingue "Altre" / Claudio Agosti, 184
33 Living with Instalive in Iran: Social Media use in Authoritarian Countries During the Pandemic / Hossein Kermani & Maria Faust, 192
34 COVID-19 and the Argentine Theatre / Nicolás Fuster, 195
35 COVID-19 and Non-Personal Data in the Indian Context: On the Normative Ideal of Public Interest / Preeti Raghunath, 200
36 Argentina-Brasil: La Resignificación del uso de la Tecnología en Épocas de Pandemia / Julián Cordoba Pivotto, 203
37 A Brazilian Cautionary Tale on Pandemic Negationism: Open Data is an Essential Safeguard for Evidence-Based Policy-Making / Nicolo Zingales, 207
38 Towards Civic Data Policies: Participatory Safeguards in COVID-19 Times / Arne Hintz, 212
V. PANDEMIC SOLIDARITIES AND RESISTANCE FROM BELOW
39 In Memory of COVID-19 in China: Forms of Digital Resistance Towards Censorship / Kinoko Merini, 216
40 Tejidos Comunitarios Desde los Márgenes: Las Cajas de Resistencia Como Herramienta Autónoma y Autoorganizada en Tiempos de Necesidad / Marta Espuny Contreras, 221
41 Citizen Sensing and Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: Engaging with COVID-19 and Climate Change / Marie-Catherine Petersmann & Anna Berti Suman, 225
42 Liberating COVID-19 Data with Volunteers in Brazil / Peter Füssy, 241
43 La Marcha Digital de las Madres de los Desaparecidos en México / Thomas Aureliani, 246
44 Brazilian Counter-Surveillance Collective Action in a DataSensitive era: The Case of #VidasNegrasImportam / Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes, 249
45 Rescatar lo Común. Redes de cuidados en España / Irene Ortiz, 253
46 COVID-19 in Argentina: When the Micro-Practices of Activism fit in a WhatsApp Message / Raquel Tarullo, 256
47 Under Other Skies: Astronomy as a Tool to Face COVID-19-Induced Isolation in the Indigenous Village of Aldeia Verde, Brazil / Arianna Cortesi, Claudia Magnani, Roberto Romero, Paula C.P. Silva, Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, Ana Maria R. Gomes, 259
48 Fighting for Feminist COVID-19 Figures: A Call for Feminist Data Visualizations During the Pandemic / Erinne Paisley, 263
