Decolonizing Data

Algorithms and Society

Buch | Softcover

68 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-29073-7 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the values and effects that are operational in data technologies as they sustain colonial and imperialist legacies while also highlighting strategies for resistance to autocratic regimes and pathways towards decolonizing efforts.

Systems and schemes for databases and automated data flow processing often contain implicitly Westernized, autocratic or even imperialist features, but can also be appropriated for resistance and revolt. Algorithms are not strictly mathematical but also embody cultural constructs. Values circulate in systems along with labels and quantities. This entails more critically reflective data practices whether in government, academia, industry or the civic sphere. The volume covers a critique of the data colonialism thesis which frames computer science as a colonizing science that uses data to classify and govern us, an alternate framing of metadata as ‘data near data’ to challenge seemingly neutral technical terms, and a case study of the use of social media platforms in the 2018 Sudanese uprising.

Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to questions posed by data decolonization research from the fields of Communication and Digital Media studies.

Michael Filimowicz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University. He has a background in computer-mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art and creative writing. His research develops new multimodal display technologies and forms, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions and simulations.

1 Notes on the Historiography of Data Colonialism; 2 Metadata Is Not Data About Data; 3 Social Media Use in the Sudanese Uprising, 2018: Mediating Civilian–Military Discourse

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Algorithms and Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	149 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-29073-0 / 1032290730
ISBN-13	978-1-032-29073-7 / 9781032290737
Zustand	Neuware