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From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues
surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the
Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed
as citizens. This book examines how citizens encounter and perform
new sorts of rights, duties, opportunities and challenges through
the Internet. By disrupting prevailing understandings of
citizenship and cyberspace, the authors highlight the dynamic
relationship between these two concepts. Rather than assuming that
these are static or established "facts" of politics and society,
the book shows how the challenges and opportunities presented by
the Internet inevitably impact upon the action and understanding of
political agency. In doing so, it investigates how we conduct
ourselves in cyberspace through digital acts. This book provides a
new theoretical understanding of what it means to be a citizen
today for students and scholars across the social sciences. This
new and updated edition includes two new chapters. A Preface
consists of reflections on developments in digital politics since
the book was published in 2015. It considers how recent major
political struggles over digital technologies and data can be
understood in relation to the conceptualization of digital citizens
that the book offers. While the Preface positions dominant
responses to these struggles such as government regulations as
'closings', a new final chapter, Digital citizens-yet-to-come
offers examples of 'openings' - digital acts such as new forms of
data activism that are less recognised but which point to the
emergence of paradoxical digital acts that are producing new
digital political subjectivities.
From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues
surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the
Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed
as citizens. This book examines how citizens encounter and perform
new sorts of rights, duties, opportunities and challenges through
the Internet. By disrupting prevailing understandings of
citizenship and cyberspace, the authors highlight the dynamic
relationship between these two concepts. Rather than assuming that
these are static or established "facts" of politics and society,
the book shows how the challenges and opportunities presented by
the Internet inevitably impact upon the action and understanding of
political agency. In doing so, it investigates how we conduct
ourselves in cyberspace through digital acts. This book provides a
new theoretical understanding of what it means to be a citizen
today for students and scholars across the social sciences. This
new and updated edition includes two new chapters. A Preface
consists of reflections on developments in digital politics since
the book was published in 2015. It considers how recent major
political struggles over digital technologies and data can be
understood in relation to the conceptualization of digital citizens
that the book offers. While the Preface positions dominant
responses to these struggles such as government regulations as
'closings', a new final chapter, Digital citizens-yet-to-come
offers examples of 'openings' - digital acts such as new forms of
data activism that are less recognised but which point to the
emergence of paradoxical digital acts that are producing new
digital political subjectivities.
Data has become a social and political issue because of its
capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and
citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an
important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its
uses in both theory and practice are possible. Data and politics
are now inseparable: data is not only shaping our social relations,
preferences and life chances but our very democracies. Expert
international contributors consider political questions about data
and the ways it provokes subjects to govern themselves by making
rights claims. Concerned with the things (infrastructures of
servers, devices, and cables) and language (code, programming, and
algorithms) that make up cyberspace, this book demonstrates that
without understanding these conditions of possibility it is
impossible to intervene in or to shape data politics. Aimed at
academics and postgraduate students interested in political aspects
of data, this volume will also be of interest to experts in the
fields of internet studies, international studies, Big Data,
digital social sciences and humanities. The Open Access version of
this book, available at
https://www.routledge.com/Data-Politics-Worlds-Subjects-Rights/Bigo-Isin-Ruppert/p/book/9781138053267,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Data has become a social and political issue because of its
capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and
citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an
important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its
uses in both theory and practice are possible. Data and politics
are now inseparable: data is not only shaping our social relations,
preferences and life chances but our very democracies. Expert
international contributors consider political questions about data
and the ways it provokes subjects to govern themselves by making
rights claims. Concerned with the things (infrastructures of
servers, devices, and cables) and language (code, programming, and
algorithms) that make up cyberspace, this book demonstrates that
without understanding these conditions of possibility it is
impossible to intervene in or to shape data politics. Aimed at
academics and postgraduate students interested in political aspects
of data, this volume will also be of interest to experts in the
fields of internet studies, international studies, Big Data,
digital social sciences and humanities. The Open Access version of
this book, available at
https://www.routledge.com/Data-Politics-Worlds-Subjects-Rights/Bigo-Isin-Ruppert/p/book/9781138053267,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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