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The Sage Handbook of Data and Society
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The Sage Handbook of Data and Society

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December 2024 | 560 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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The Sage Handbook of Data and Society provides a comprehensive exploration of the impact of data on society. Addressing urgent research questions in this rapidly evolving field and offering a balanced mix of introductory insights and advanced analyses, this resource offers a nuanced understanding of critical data studies and their relevance to contemporary society. Through detailed examinations of specific issues, cases, concepts, and methodologies, the handbook fosters a critical proximity to the entanglement of social dynamics and their data doubles.

Organized into seven sections, the handbook covers a diverse range of topics, including data infrastructures, digital labor, power dynamics, environmental challenges, bodily experiences, scientific methodologies, and disciplinary intersections. Each section offers a broad examination of critical issues, highlighting interdisciplinary scholarship and presenting fresh perspectives on the intricate relationship between data and societal structures.

Featuring contributions from scholars representing various disciplines and global perspectives, The Sage Handbook of Data and Society is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners. By encouraging critical engagement with the profound impacts of datafication, this handbook equips readers with the necessary tools to navigate the complexities of the digital age and comprehend its implications for contemporary society.

 

Section 1: Infrastructures of Data

Section 2: Labor of Data

Section 3: Power and Struggles of Data

Section 4: Data and Crises of Nature

Section 5: Data and Bodies

Section 6: The Sciences of Data

Section 7: Disciplines of Data


Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Introduction
 
Section 1: Infrastructures of Data
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 1 Introduction
Ayesha Omer & Ben Mendelsohn
Chapter One: The Materiality of Data and Infrastructure
Steven J. Jackson, Jen Liu, Ranjit Singh, and Samir Passi
Chapter Two: Maintaining Data Infrastructures
Signe Sophus Lai & Sofie Flensburg
Chapter Three: Scaling up Directions for critical studies of data infrastructure
Julia Velkova
Chapter 4: Data Infrastructures and their Temporalities
 
Section 2: Labor of Data
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 2 Introduction
Greg Downey
Chapter 5: Revealing invisible information labor
Sofia Daniela Negri
Chapter 6: Data labor and collective mobilization
Rafael Grohmann
Chapter 7: Free Labor and Data Labor in the Digital Economy
 
Section 3: Power and Struggles of Data
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 3 Introduction
Claudia Aradau
Chapter 8: The datafication of difference: states, borders, (in)security
Ernesto Schwarz-Merin, Arely Cruz Santiago, Conor O'Reilly
Chapter 9: Data Justice in Mexico
Jacob Prehn, Cassandra Price, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Maggie Walter, Ray Lovett 
Chapter 10: Social Research and Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Anita Say Chan and Patricia Garcia
Chapter 11: Community Data Initiatives: Fostering Relational Engagement in Data Practices and Situated Accountability from Dominant Knowledge Institutions
 
Section 4: Data and Crises of Nature
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 4 Introduction
Cindy Lin
Chapter 12: Knowing Nature Through Data
Lourdes Vera, Kelsey Bresemen, Cole Alder and Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
Chapter 13: From the Environmental Right to Know to Environmental Data Justice
Lydia Gibson
Chapter 14: (Data) Clouds in Untainted Skies above Brave New Worlds: anti-utopian narratives of environmental data practices.
 
Section 5: Data and the Body
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 5 Introduction
Camille Crichlow
Chapter 15: The Co-Constitution of Race and Data
Cal Biruk
Chapter 16: The datafication of African health and bodies, past and present
Gabrielle Samuel, Rachel Horton, Kate Lyle, Susie Weller, Anneke Lucassen
Chapter 17: Genome sequencing: challenges for equity and sustainability in an age of big data
Suneel Jethani
Chapter 18: The Quantified Self and Beyond: Situated Data Practices and Scope Creep
Os Keyes and Katherine Cross
Chapter 19: Data Violence
Enka Blanchard, Aurélien Blanchard and Ashley Shew
Chapter 20: 404 Not Found: Quantitative Methods in Disability Studies
 
Section 6: The Sciences of Data
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 6 Introduction
Patrick Jones
Chapter 21: Blurring Boundaries: Digital data and critical methods in media and technology studies
Emillie de Keulenaar & Richard Rogers
Chapter 22: After content moderation: The return of trace research for the study of platform effects
Roopika Risam
Chapter 23: Rethinking Community Information Visualization: Collaborative and Redistributive Approaches
Adrian Mackenzie
Chapter 24: Social research according to computers
 
Section 7: Disciplines of Data
Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford
Section 7 Introduction
Julia Wagner
Chapter 25: Data according to space, space according to data
Anders Munk & Anders Koed Madsen
Chapter 26: Data according to culture & culture according to data
Andrea Benedetti & Michele Mauri
Chapter 27: Data design as a frictional layer. Data collections and design actions to produce discursive communication artifacts
Carina Albrecht & Wendy HK Chun
Chapter 28: Data according to critical approaches and critical approaches engaging data: from capture to care

Tommaso Venturini

Tommaso Venturini is Associate Professor at the Medialab of the University of Geneva, researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet & Society, and founder of the Public Data Lab. He has been “advanced research fellow” at INRIA, “digital methods lecturer” at King's College London, and “research coordinator” of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris. His work lies at the intersection of media studies and science and technology studies. His research focuses on digital methods, Internet subcultures, the online attention economy, and controversy mapping. More About Author

Amelia Acker

Amelia Acker is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information, where she leads the Critical Data Studies Lab. Her research on data archives and preservation has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship. Acker’s research agenda focuses on cultures of mobile computing, emerging digital preservation models, data literacy, personal information management, and metadata standards for data access between private and public archives. More About Author

Jean-Christophe Plantin

Jean-Christophe Plantin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching focus on the infrastructural power of tech giants, the platformization of cybersecurity, gaming, and library data, and the invisible labor of cleaning data infrastructure. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in Communication and Information Studies from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. More About Author

Tone Walford

Tone Walford is an Associate Professor of Digital Anthropology at University College London. Their research explores the effects of the exponential growth of digital data on social and cultural imaginaries and practices, with an ethnographic focus on emergent forms of data-driven environmental politics and scientific subjectivities in Brazil. They previously held post-doctoral positions at the Open University, Copenhagen University, and University of Warwick. More About Author

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