This book focuses on the values and effects that are operational in
data technologies as they sustain colonial and imperialist legacies
while also highlighting strategies for resistance to autocratic
regimes and pathways towards decolonizing efforts. Systems and
schemes for databases and automated data flow processing often
contain implicitly Westernized, autocratic or even imperialist
features, but can also be appropriated for resistance and revolt.
Algorithms are not strictly mathematical but also embody cultural
constructs. Values circulate in systems along with labels and
quantities. This entails more critically reflective data practices
whether in government, academia, industry or the civic sphere. The
volume covers a critique of the data colonialism thesis which
frames computer science as a colonizing science that uses data to
classify and govern us, an alternate framing of metadata as ‘data
near data’ to challenge seemingly neutral technical terms, and a
case study of the use of social media platforms in the 2018
Sudanese uprising. Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as
well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public
will find a multidisciplinary approach to questions posed by data
decolonization research from the fields of Communication and
Digital Media studies.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Algorithms and Society |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Editors: |
Michael Filimowicz
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
96 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-229072-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-229072-2 |
Barcode: |
9781032290720 |
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