Data lives : how data are made and shape our world / Rob Kitchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kitchin, Rob, author.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing--Social aspects.

Electronic data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Rob Kitchin explores how data-driven technologies have become essential to society, government and the economy. Blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data influence our daily lives.

Contents:

13 The End of the Data Lifecycle

Part III Living with Data

14 Traces and Shadows

15 Recommended Life

16 The Quantified Self

17 Fighting Fires

18 Management Through Metrics

19 Guinea Pigs

20 Big Brother is Watching and Controlling You

21 Security Theatre

22 When a Country Ignores Its Own Data

23 Data Theft

24 Data for the People, by the People

25 Black Data Matter

PART IV Conclusion

26 A Matter of Life and Death

27 Data Futures

Notes

Index

Back Cover

Front Cover

Endrosment

Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Part I Introduction

1 Data Stories

Telling Stories

Data Lives

Part II The Life of Data

2 Blind Data

3 The Nature of Data

4 Gridlock

5 In Data We Trust

6 How to Lose (and Regain) 3.6 Billion Euros

7 Harmonizing Data is Hard

8 Open-and-Shut Case

9 The Politics of Building Civic Tech

10 So More Trumps Better?

11 Hustling for Funding

12 The Secret Science of Formulas

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781529215649

9781529215151

1529215153

9781529215168

1529215161

9781529215144

1529215145

OCLC:

1228046576