New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.
Contains figures, tables, index
Series: Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-media Research
ISBN 978-3-030-96179-4; 978-3-030-96180-0 (eBook)
CC BY
"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Secondly, the book examines ambivalences between the state and data justice. It considers data justice in relation to state surveillance and data capitalism, and reflects on the ambivalences between an “entrepreneurial state” and a “welfare state”. Thirdly, the authors discuss ambivalences of everyday practices and collective action, in which civil society groups, communities, and movements try to position the interests of people against the “big players” in the tech industry." (Publisher description)
New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power-An Introduction / Andreas Hepp, Juliane Jarke, and Leif Kramp, 1
PART I: GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND LOCAL INVISIBILITIES
Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics / Jack Linchuan Qiu, 27
Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements' Organizational Elites / Anne Schmitz, Heiko Kirschner, and Andreas Hepp, 47
The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data Studies on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm / Nimmi Rangaswamy and Haripriya Narasimhan, 75
Fighting the "System": A Pilot Project on the Opacity of Algorithms in Political Communication / Jonathan Bonneau, Laurence Grondin-Robillard, Marc Ménard, and André Mondoux, 97
Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance / Donna Cormack and Tahu Kukutai, 121
PART II: STATE AND DATA JUSTICE
The Datafied Welfare State: A Perspective from the UK / Lina Dencik, 145
The Value Dynamics of Data Capitalism: Cultural Production and Consumption in a Datafied World / Goran Bolin, 167
Mapping Data Justice as a Multidimensional Concept Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives / Claude Draude, Gerrit Hornung, and Goda Klumbyte, 187
Reconfiguring Education Through Data: How Data Practices Reconfigure Teacher Professionalism and Curriculum / Lyndsay Grant, 217
Public Values and Technological Change: Mapping how Municipalities Grapple with Data Ethics / Lotje Siffels, David van den Berg, Mirko Tobias Schafer, and Iris Muis, 243
Welfare Data Society? Critical Evaluation of the Possibilities of Developing Data Infrastructure Literacy from User Data Workshops to Public Service Media / Jenni Hokka, 267
PART III: EVERYDAY PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
(Not) Safe to Use: Insecurities in Everyday Data Practices with Period-Tracking Apps / Katrin Amelang, 297
Community Rankings and Affective Discipline: The Case of Fandometrics / Elena Maris and Nancy Baym, 323
Affinity Spaces as an Analytical Lens for Attending to Temporality in Critical Data Studies: The Case of COVID-19-Related, Educational Twitter Communication / Irina Zakharova, Juliane Jarke, and Andreas Breiter, 345
"Party like it's December 31, 1983": Supporting Data Literacy at CryptoParties / Sigrid Kannengießer, 371
Researching Public Trust in Datafication: Reflections on the Deliberative Citizen Jury as Method / Helen Kennedy, Robin Steedman, and Rhianne Jones, 391
Worker Perspectives on Designs for a Crowdwork Co-operative / Jo Bates, Alessandro Checco, and Elli Gerakopoulou, 415
Counting, Debunking, Making, Witnessing, Shielding: What Critical Data Studies Can Learn from Data Activism During the Pandemic / Stefania Milan, 445
PART I: GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND LOCAL INVISIBILITIES
Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics / Jack Linchuan Qiu, 27
Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements' Organizational Elites / Anne Schmitz, Heiko Kirschner, and Andreas Hepp, 47
The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data Studies on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm / Nimmi Rangaswamy and Haripriya Narasimhan, 75
Fighting the "System": A Pilot Project on the Opacity of Algorithms in Political Communication / Jonathan Bonneau, Laurence Grondin-Robillard, Marc Ménard, and André Mondoux, 97
Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance / Donna Cormack and Tahu Kukutai, 121
PART II: STATE AND DATA JUSTICE
The Datafied Welfare State: A Perspective from the UK / Lina Dencik, 145
The Value Dynamics of Data Capitalism: Cultural Production and Consumption in a Datafied World / Goran Bolin, 167
Mapping Data Justice as a Multidimensional Concept Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives / Claude Draude, Gerrit Hornung, and Goda Klumbyte, 187
Reconfiguring Education Through Data: How Data Practices Reconfigure Teacher Professionalism and Curriculum / Lyndsay Grant, 217
Public Values and Technological Change: Mapping how Municipalities Grapple with Data Ethics / Lotje Siffels, David van den Berg, Mirko Tobias Schafer, and Iris Muis, 243
Welfare Data Society? Critical Evaluation of the Possibilities of Developing Data Infrastructure Literacy from User Data Workshops to Public Service Media / Jenni Hokka, 267
PART III: EVERYDAY PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
(Not) Safe to Use: Insecurities in Everyday Data Practices with Period-Tracking Apps / Katrin Amelang, 297
Community Rankings and Affective Discipline: The Case of Fandometrics / Elena Maris and Nancy Baym, 323
Affinity Spaces as an Analytical Lens for Attending to Temporality in Critical Data Studies: The Case of COVID-19-Related, Educational Twitter Communication / Irina Zakharova, Juliane Jarke, and Andreas Breiter, 345
"Party like it's December 31, 1983": Supporting Data Literacy at CryptoParties / Sigrid Kannengießer, 371
Researching Public Trust in Datafication: Reflections on the Deliberative Citizen Jury as Method / Helen Kennedy, Robin Steedman, and Rhianne Jones, 391
Worker Perspectives on Designs for a Crowdwork Co-operative / Jo Bates, Alessandro Checco, and Elli Gerakopoulou, 415
Counting, Debunking, Making, Witnessing, Shielding: What Critical Data Studies Can Learn from Data Activism During the Pandemic / Stefania Milan, 445
