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Predatory Data

Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-40284-3
Verlag: University of California
Erscheinungstermin: 07.01.2025
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The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive "big data" regimes.

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. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520402843
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-40284-3
  • Verlag: University of California
  • Erscheinungstermin: 07.01.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2025
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 400 g
  • Seiten: 262
  • Format (B x H x T): 149 x 224 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Predatory Data: Civic Amputations in the Global Data Economy

1 • Immigrant Excisions, “Race Suicide,” and the Eugenic Information Market

2 • Streamlining’s Laboratories: Monitoring Culture and Eugenic Design in the Future City

3 • Of Merit, Metrics, and Myth: Cognitive Elites and Techno-Eugenics in the Knowledge Economy

4 • Relational Infrastructures: Feminist Refusals and Immigrant Data Solidarities

5 • The Coalitional Lives of Data Pluralism: Intergenerational Feminist Resistance to Data Apartheid

6 • Community Data: Pluri-Temporalities in the Aftermath of Big Data

Conclusion: Data Pluralism and a Playbook for Defending Improbable Worlds

Notes

References

Index