New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies : : The Ambivalences of Data Power

• Superior document: Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research
• Author: Hepp, Andreas.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jarke, Juliane.; Kramp, Leif.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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. The book includes eighteen chapters that provide new and varied perspectives on the role of data and data infrastructures in our increasingly datafied societies.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Images -- List of Tables -- New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power-An Introduction -- Introduction -- Critical Data Studies as a Field: From Big Data to the Complexity of Digital Data and Data Infrastructures -- Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power -- References -- Part I: Global Infrastructures and Local Invisibilities -- Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics -- Introduction -- AI Superpower?

Complex Reality Through Historical and Conflictive Lenses -- Chinese Data Power and Counter-power -- Conclusion -- References -- Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements' Organizational Elites -- Introduction -- State of Research: The QS and Maker Movements' Organisational Elites -- Methodological Approach: Contextualised Twitter Network Analysis -- QS Movement: A Network of Opinion Leaders -- The Transnational Network -- The National Context -- Maker: A Network of Heterogeneous Organisations -- The Transnational Network

The National Context -- Conclusion -- References -- The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data Studies on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm -- Introduction -- An Overview of Technical Education, Higher Education, and Unemployability in India -- Methodology and Field Sites -- The Ameerpet IT Skill Hub: There Is a Skill Just Around the Corner -- The Coaching Micro Hubs of Kumbakonam -- Computer Coaching Centres -- Beyond Developing IT Skills to Employment -- Conclusion -- References -- Fighting the "System": A Pilot Project on the Opacity of Algorithms in Political Communication

Introduction -- Political Communication in the Age of Algorithms -- Research Objectives and Methodology -- Establishing and Feeding Control Accounts -- Creating Profiles and Feeding the Control Accounts -- Preliminary Findings -- Next Steps -- Conclusion -- References -- Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance -- Introduction -- Colonialism and the Racialised Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples -- Surveilling and Managing Indigenous Deviance and Threat -- Colonial Surveillance in an Era of Big Data in Aotearoa NZ -- Māori Data Sovereignty: Resistance and Self-determination

Conclusion -- References -- Part II: State and Data Justice -- The Datafied Welfare State: A Perspective from the UK -- Introduction -- Matrix of Social Power and the Foundations of the British Welfare State -- The Datafication of Welfare in the UK -- Datafication as Responsibilisation -- Datafication as Rentierism -- Conclusion -- References -- The Value Dynamics of Data Capitalism: Cultural Production and Consumption in a Datafied World -- Introduction -- Value and Values -- Dynamics of Data Capitalism -- Relations Between Value Forms -- Conclusions -- References

Mapping Data Justice as a Multidimensional Concept Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives