Data Power - Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance (Hardcover)

In recent years, popular media have inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and unique. This book proposes a radical rethinking of the history, present and future of our relations with the digital, spatial technologies that increasingly mediate our everyday lives. From smartphones to surveillance cameras, to navigational satellites, these new technologies offer visions of integrated, smooth and efficient societies, even as they directly conflict with the ways users experience them. Recognising the potential for both control and liberation, the authors argue against both acquiescence to and rejection of these technologies. Through intentional use of the very systems that monitor them, activists from Charlottesville to Hong Kong are subverting, resisting and repurposing geographic technologies. Using examples as varied as writings on the first telephones to the experiences of a feminist collective for migrant women in Spain, the authors present a revolution of everyday technologies. In the face of the seemingly inevitable dominance of corporate interests, these technologies allow us to create new spaces of affinity, and a new politics of change.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Radical Geography
Release date:	December 2021
Authors:	Jim E. Thatcher • Craig M. Dalton
Dimensions:	215 x 135mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Library binding
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-4008-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Data analysis Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Data structures Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Algorithms & procedures Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Privacy & data protection Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Pressure groups & lobbying Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > General
LSN:	0-7453-4008-3
Barcode:	9780745340081

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