Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights
London, New York: Routledge (2019), x, 293 pp.
Contains figures, index
Series: Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology
ISBN 978-1-315-16730-5 (ebook); 9781138053267 (pbk)
"Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible. Data and politics are now inseparable: data is not only shaping our social relations, preferences and life chances but our very democracies. Expert international contributors consider political questions about data and the ways it provokes subjects to govern themselves by making rights claims. Concerned with the things (infrastructures of servers, devices, and cables) and language (code, programming, and algorithms) that make up cyberspace, this book demonstrates that without understanding these conditions of possibility it is impossible to intervene in or to shape data politics." (Publisher description)
1 Data politics / Didier Bigo, Engin Isin and Evely Ruppert, 1
I. CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY OF DATA POLITICS
2 Knowledge infrastructures under siege: climate data as memory, truce, and target / Paul N. Edwards, 21
3 Against infrasomatization: towards a critical theory of algorithms / David M. Berry, 43
4 Surveillance capitalism, surveillance culture and data politics / David Lyon, 64
II. WORLDS
5 Mutual entanglement and complex sovereignty in cyberspace / Ronald J. Deibert and Louis W. Pauly, 81
6 Digital data and the transnational intelligence space / Didier Bigo and Laurent Bonelli, 100
7 From fake to junk news: the data politics of online virality / Tommaso Venturini, 123
8 Seeing like Big Tech: security assemblages, technology, and the future of state bureaucracy / Félix Tréguer, 145
III. SUBJECTS
9 Towards data justice: bridging anti-surveillance and social justice activism / Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz and Jonathan Cable, 167
10 Theses on automation and labour / Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter, 187
11 Data's empire: postcolonial data politics / Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert, 207
IV. RIGHTS
12 The right to data oblivion / Giovanni Ziccardi, 231
13 Data citizens: how to reinvent rights / Jennifer Gabrys, 248
14 Data rights: claiming privacy rights through international institutions / Elspeth Guild, 285
I. CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY OF DATA POLITICS
2 Knowledge infrastructures under siege: climate data as memory, truce, and target / Paul N. Edwards, 21
3 Against infrasomatization: towards a critical theory of algorithms / David M. Berry, 43
4 Surveillance capitalism, surveillance culture and data politics / David Lyon, 64
II. WORLDS
5 Mutual entanglement and complex sovereignty in cyberspace / Ronald J. Deibert and Louis W. Pauly, 81
6 Digital data and the transnational intelligence space / Didier Bigo and Laurent Bonelli, 100
7 From fake to junk news: the data politics of online virality / Tommaso Venturini, 123
8 Seeing like Big Tech: security assemblages, technology, and the future of state bureaucracy / Félix Tréguer, 145
III. SUBJECTS
9 Towards data justice: bridging anti-surveillance and social justice activism / Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz and Jonathan Cable, 167
10 Theses on automation and labour / Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter, 187
11 Data's empire: postcolonial data politics / Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert, 207
IV. RIGHTS
12 The right to data oblivion / Giovanni Ziccardi, 231
13 Data citizens: how to reinvent rights / Jennifer Gabrys, 248
14 Data rights: claiming privacy rights through international institutions / Elspeth Guild, 285
