Data publics public plurality in an era of data determinacy / edited by Peter M©œrtenb©œck and Helge Mooshammer.

Other author M©œrtenb©œck, Peter, 1966-
Other author Mooshammer, Helge.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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SeriesRoutledge research in design, technology and society
Abstract "Data has emerged as a key component that determines how interactions across the world are structured, mediated and represented. This book examines these new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms. By claiming to offer a mechanism to translate every conceivable occurrence into an abstract code that can be endlessly manipulated, digitally processed data has caused conventional reference systems which hinge on our ability to mark points of origin, to rapidly implode. Authors from a range of disciplines provide insights into such a political economy of data capitalism; the political possibilities of techno-logics beyond data appropriation and data refusal; questions of visual, spatial and geographical organization; emergent ways of life and the environments that sustain them; and the current challenges of data publics, which is explored via case studies of three of the most influential platforms in the social media economy today: Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. Data Publics will be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of computer science, philosophy, sociology, media and communication studies, architecture, visual culture, art and design, and urban and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Data publics London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 9780367184728
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LCCN 2020007315
ISBN9780429196515 (ebk)
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