Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society - Hardcover

Hintz, Arne; Dencik, Lina; Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150952715X ISBN 13: 9781509527151

Publisher: Polity, 2018

Synopsis

Digitisation has transformed how we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. Conceptions of active digital citizenship must therefore be complemented by an awareness of the monitoring and profiling of citizens. Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society offers a new understanding of citizenship in an age defined by data collection and processing. Hintz, Dencik and Wahl-Jorgensen trace the social forces, as well as the norms and ideologies, which shape digital citizenship. They investigate regulatory frameworks, mediated public debate, citizens' knowledge and understanding, and possibilities for dissent and resistance, as well as the conditions in which digital citizenship is formed and how it might be enhanced in an era of datafication. Drawing on extensive empirical research and deftly connecting debates on digital citizenship, big data and surveillance, this book is indispensable reading for scholars and students of media and communication, technology, politics and surveillance studies, as well as those working with issues of citizenship and social change.

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Review:

'Every day people become more conscious of the ways that our dealings with the digital both offer new opportunities and shut them off. This refreshing book shrewdly indicates ways forward, by showing that while ubiquitous surveillance often limits our options, critical approaches to data feed into emerging modes of digital citizenship that offer real potential for intervention. Insightful, stimulating and realistic, it is also a model of seamless co-authorship.'David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada'The authors bring surveillance and critical data studies together to make an important contribution to the understanding of citizenship within datafied societies. Critically, their approach considers ubiquitous datafication not only in relation to the expansion of state power and control but also the emergence of new practices of citizen dissent and resistance.'Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London

About the Author:

Arne Hintz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Lina Dencik is Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor of Journalism, Media and Communications at Cardiff University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 150952715X
• ISBN 13: 9781509527151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180