Data power in action : urban data politics in times of crisis / edited by Ola Söderström and Ayona Datta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Söderström, Ola, editor.

Datta, Ayona, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Big data--Political aspects.

Big data.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how the intensive use of data changes politics, power relations and everyday life in contemporary cities. Across the volume, expert contributors show how urban actors, from the state to activists, are increasingly using data as a resource to empower their actions and support their claims and shows how times of crisis are moments when the power of data is made visible. Focusing on the different dimensions of data power and politics in the urban realm, this is an important contribution to our understanding of how datafication transforms the places in which we live and how we experience them.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Funding

Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis

Frames

Urban Data Power: Capitalism, Governance, Ethics, and Justice

Platforms as States: The Rise of Governance through Data Power

Data Ethics in Practice: Rethinking Scale, Trust, and Autonomy

The Contingencies of Urban Data: Between the Interoperable and Inoperable

Strategies

Experiments in Practice: New Directions in Municipal Data Policy and Governance

Webinars and War Rooms: Technopolitics of Data in the Digitalizing State

The Smartmentality of Urban Data Politics: Evidence from Two Chinese Cities

Tactics

Platform Work, Everyday Life, and Survival in Times of Crisis: Views and Experiences from Nairobi

An Urban Data Politics of Scale: Lessons from South Africa

Beyond 'Data Positivism': Civil Society Organizations' Data and Knowledge Tactics in South Africa

Epilogue: Beyond Data and Crisis

Index

Notes:

This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

1-5292-3355-0

OCLC:

1419789624