Queer Data Studies / edited by Patrick Keilty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keilty, Patrick, editor.

Series:

Feminist technosciences.

Feminist Technosciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2023]

Summary:

Data, perilous and powerful, is both a worldmaking and a dismantling force. The collection of data about queer lives and bodies, the consequences of data analysis for queer subjects, and considerations of privacy and consent often present ethical dilemmas even as queer data expands our understanding of who and what counts. The need for queer analyses and perspectives has taken on a new sense of urgency in light of hostile antiqueer policies by major technology companies, the security theater of airports, the disproportionate rates of policing queer people and people of color, digital surveillance in border security, and the proliferation of digital health records.0Gathering wide-ranging interdisciplinary conversations into one rich volume, Queer Data Studies challenges readers to rethink how the extraction, circulation, modeling, governance, and use of data affects queer subjects and, at the same time, to consider how the power of data might be harnessed in the service of queer ethics. Contributors take a capacious approach to data, drawing from a range of sources, including stories, sounds, medical data, police data, maps, and algorithmic modeling. This anthology engages intersectional, decolonial, feminist, queer, and trans research, advancing ongoing dialogues about data across the social sciences, humanities, and applied sciences.

Contents:

Introduction / Patrick Keilty

Black data / Shaka McGlotten

"To fight for an end to intrusions into the sex lives of Americans" : gay and lesbian resistance to sexual surveillance and data collection, 1945-1972 / Nikita Shepard

Machine learning and the queer technics of opacity / Gary Kafer

Objectionable nipples : Puritan data politics and sexual agency in social media / Susanna Paasonen, Jenny Sundén

HIV data as queer data : biomedical sexualities, treatment-as-prevention, and the new sex hierarchy for people living with HIV / Stephen Molldrem

Generated vulnerability : male sex workers, third-party platforms, and data security / Ryan Conrad

Not enough meaningful data? : kessons from Eastern Europe / Lina Žigelytė

Reciprocating sexy information : reflections on studying the data of gay sex in Beirut / Mathew Gagné

Homobiles : queering data through ephemerality and intimacy / Harris Kornstein

Situated indications : queer STS experiments on global datafication / Suisui Wang.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295751986

0295751983

OCLC:

1415927328