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Data Lives : How Data Are Made and Shape Our World
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Data Lives : How Data Are Made and Shape Our World
ISBN
9781529215649
9781529215144
Publication
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (274 pages).
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Summary
Rob Kitchin explores how data-driven technologies have become essential to society, government and the economy. Blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data influence our daily lives.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Front Cover
Endrosment
Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Part I Introduction
1 Data Stories
Telling Stories
Data Lives
Part II The Life of Data
2 Blind Data
3 The Nature of Data
4 Gridlock
5 In Data We Trust
6 How to Lose (and Regain) 3.6 Billion Euros
7 Harmonizing Data is Hard
8 Open-and-Shut Case
9 The Politics of Building Civic Tech
10 So More Trumps Better?
11 Hustling for Funding
12 The Secret Science of Formulas
13 The End of the Data Lifecycle
Part III Living with Data
14 Traces and Shadows
15 Recommended Life
16 The Quantified Self
17 Fighting Fires
18 Management Through Metrics
19 Guinea Pigs
20 Big Brother is Watching and Controlling You
21 Security Theatre
22 When a Country Ignores Its Own Data
23 Data Theft
24 Data for the People, by the People
25 Black Data Matter
PART IV Conclusion
26 A Matter of Life and Death
27 Data Futures
Notes
Index
Back Cover
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