Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights [Hardcover]

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible.

Data and politics are now inseparable: data is not only shaping our social relations, preferences and life chances but our very democracies. Expert international contributors consider political questions about data and the ways it provokes subjects to govern themselves by making rights claims. Concerned with the things (infrastructures of servers, devices, and cables) and language (code, programming, and algorithms) that make up cyberspace, this book demonstrates that without understanding these conditions of possibility it is impossible to intervene in or to shape data politics.

Aimed at academics and postgraduate students interested in political aspects of data, this volume will also be of interest to experts in the fields of internet studies, international studies, Big Data, digital social sciences and humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/Data-Politics-Worlds-Subjects-Rights/Bigo-Isin-Ruppert/p/book/9781138053267, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Chapter 1: Data Politics PART 1: Conditions of Possibility of Data Politics Chapter 2: Knowledge Infrastructures under Siege: Climate Data as Memory, Truce, and Target Chapter 3: Against Infrasomatisation: Towards a Critical Theory of Algorithms Chapter 4: Surveillance Capitalism, Surveillance Culture and Data Politics PART 2: Worlds Chapter 5: Mutual Entanglement and Complex Sovereignty in Cyberspace Chapter 6: Digital Data and the Transnational Intelligence Space Chapter 7: From Fake to Junk News, the Dalc%