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9781032290720: Decolonizing Data: Algorithms and Society
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ISBN 10: 1032290722 ISBN 13: 9781032290720
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1032290722
ISBN 13 
9781032290720
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
80
Redattore
Filimowicz Michael
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781032290737: Decolonizing Data: Algorithms and Society

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ISBN 10:  1032290730 ISBN 13:  9781032290737
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2024
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