Data Power - Jim E. Thatcher, Craig M. Dalton

Data Power

Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance
Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2021
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4008-1 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
An introduction to learning how to protect ourselves and organise against Big Data
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.

Jim E. Thatcher is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Craig M. Dalton is Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Geography at Hofstra University.

List of Figures and Tables

Series Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Technology and the Axes of Hope and Fear

1. Life in the Age of Big Data

2. What Are Our Data, and What Are They Worth?

3. Existing Everyday Resistances

4. Contesting the Data Spectacle

5. Our Data Are Us, So Make Them Ours

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Radical Geography
Zusatzinfo 16 Figures
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Gewicht 377 g
Themenwelt Informatik Datenbanken Data Warehouse / Data Mining
Informatik Theorie / Studium Algorithmen
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7453-4008-3 / 0745340083
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-4008-1 / 9780745340081
Zustand Neuware
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