Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: Media in Action; 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed and interrelated in data-saturated environments? The volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the current shift from media to data practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction
I: Cultural Histories of Data
Film as the First Universal Data Medium
Film Box Office Charts and the Metadata of Culture
II: Data Ethnography
Doing Data Ethnography: A Moderated Conversation and Reflection
“Girls are like Glass”: Situated Knowledges of Syrian Refugee Women on Datafication and Transparency
III: Digital Care
Everyday Curation? Attending to Data, Records and Record Keeping in the Practices of Self-Monitoring
User-Oriented Innovations: On Cooperative Imagination Spaces in R&D Projects to Support Older Adults in Rural Areas with ICT and Sensor Technology
Managing Data, Managing Contradictions: Archiving and Sharing Ethnographic Data
Designing a Data Story: An Innovative Approach for the Selective Care of Qualitative and Ethnographic Data
IV: Datafied Mobilities
Mediating Affective Atmospheres through Public Wifi Infrastructure
Dashboard Design and Driving Data(fication)
Algorithms Curate Data: Four Perspectives on Data-Based Working Conditions, Using the Example of Route and Job Planning
Epilogue
Digitize Again Forever
Authors