Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society) - Softcover

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9780367513443: Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0367513447 ISBN 13: 9780367513443
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at TU Wien’s School of Architecture and Planning, and Professorial Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London.

Helge Mooshammer is a cultural theorist based at Goldsmiths College, London and TU Wien.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367513447
ISBN 13 
9780367513443
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248
Editor
Mörtenböck Peter, Mooshammer Helge

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