Overview
- This is an Open Access book, which means you have free and unlimited access
- Instigates debate on the role data and data infrastructures play in the public interest
- Engages with issues related to welfare, public life, education, literacy and the practice of everyday life
- Examines ambivalences between the state and data justice
Part of the book series: Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research (TCSCMR)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Infrastructures and Local Invisibilities
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State and Data Justice
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Everyday Practices and Collective Action
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Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communications and Head of ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany. He is the author of 12 monographs including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Nick Couldry, 2017), Transcultural Communication (2015) and Cultures of Mediatization (2013). His latest book is Deep Mediatization (2020).
Juliane Jarke is a senior researcher at the Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib) and Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, Germany. Jarke co-edited The Datafication of Education (with Andreas Breiter, 2019) and Probes as Participatory Design Practice (with Susanne Maaß, 2018). Her most recent book is Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society (2020).
Leif Kramp is a post-doctoral media, communication and history scholar and ResearchCoordinator of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen (ZeMKI), Germany. Kramp has authored and edited various books about the transformation of media and journalism and is a founding member of the German Association of Media and Journalism Criticism (VfMJ).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies
Book Subtitle: The Ambivalences of Data Power
Editors: Andreas Hepp, Juliane Jarke, Leif Kramp
Series Title: Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96180-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96179-4Published: 21 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96182-4Published: 21 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96180-0Published: 20 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-9320
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9339
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 473