Data Publics - Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Peter Moertenboeck • Helge Mooshammer
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-18472-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Data structures Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Algorithms & procedures Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation
LSN:	0-367-18472-9
Barcode:	9780367184728

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