- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Data Stories -
2 Blind Data -
3 The Nature of Data -
4 Gridlock -
5 In Data We Trust -
6 How to Lose (and Regain) 3.6 Billion Euros -
7 Harmonizing Data is Hard -
8 Open-and-Shut Case -
9 The Politics of Building Civic Tech -
10 So More Trumps Better? -
11 Hustling for Funding -
12 The Secret Science of Formulas -
13 The End of the Data Lifecycle -
14 Traces and Shadows -
15 Recommended Life -
16 The Quantified Self -
17 Fighting Fires -
18 Management Through Metrics -
19 Guinea Pigs -
20 Big Brother is Watching and Controlling You -
21 Security Theatre -
22 When a Country Ignores Its Own Data -
23 Data Theft -
24 Data for the People, by the People -
25 Black Data Matter -
26 A Matter of Life and Death -
27 Data Futures - Notes
- Index
Data Stories
Data Stories
This chapter provides an overview of the sociality of data. Data-driven endeavours are not simply technical systems, but are socio-technical systems. That is, they are as much a result of human values, desires, and social relations as they are scientific principles and technologies. The sociality of data is also evident with respect to how we have come to live with data. The data revolution has been transforming work and the economy, the nature of consumption, the management and governance of society, how we communicate and interact with media and each other, and forms of play and leisure. Indeed, our lives are saturated with digital devices and services that generate, process, and share vast quantities of data. This book reveals the myriad, complex, contested ways in which data are produced and circulated, as well as the consequences of living in a data-driven world.
Keywords: data, socio-technical systems, data revolution, digital devices, digital services, data production, data circulation
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Data Stories -
2 Blind Data -
3 The Nature of Data -
4 Gridlock -
5 In Data We Trust -
6 How to Lose (and Regain) 3.6 Billion Euros -
7 Harmonizing Data is Hard -
8 Open-and-Shut Case -
9 The Politics of Building Civic Tech -
10 So More Trumps Better? -
11 Hustling for Funding -
12 The Secret Science of Formulas -
13 The End of the Data Lifecycle -
14 Traces and Shadows -
15 Recommended Life -
16 The Quantified Self -
17 Fighting Fires -
18 Management Through Metrics -
19 Guinea Pigs -
20 Big Brother is Watching and Controlling You -
21 Security Theatre -
22 When a Country Ignores Its Own Data -
23 Data Theft -
24 Data for the People, by the People -
25 Black Data Matter -
26 A Matter of Life and Death -
27 Data Futures - Notes
- Index
