Predatory data : eugenics in big tech and our fight for an independent future / Anita Say Chan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Anita Say, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Discrimination in science--History.

Discrimination in science.

Eugenics--Moral and ethical aspects--History.

Eugenics.

Quantitative research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Quantitative research.

Big data--Moral and ethical aspects.

Big data.

Physical Description:

xii, 246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data. While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Predatory data : civic amputations in the global data economy

Immigrant excisions, "race suicide" and the eugenic information market

Streamlining's laboratories : monitoring culture and eugenic design in the future city

Of merit, metrics and myth : cognitive elites and techno-eugenics in the knowledge economy

Relational infrastructures : feminist refusals and immigrant data solidarities

The coalitional lives of data pluralism : intergenerational feminist resistance to data apartheid

Community data : pluri-temporalities in the aftermath of big data

Conclusion. Data pluralism and a playbook for defending improbable worlds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Chan, Anita Say. Predatory data.

ISBN:

9780520402843

0520402847

OCLC:

1451800959