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Book SynopsisAn introduction to learning how to protect ourselves and organise against Big Data
Trade Review'A call to arms [...] sets out a clear, persuasive argument for the need to challenge the power of platforms and systems, and details the tools to do so. A thought-provoking read'
-- Prof. Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University
‘The first non-technical guidebook on how to live with location data and it is a truly radical response for our times. Spatial data for us, not about us’
-- Jeremy W. Crampton, Professor of Urban Data Analysis, Newcastle University
‘Brilliantly traces the closed loops of spatial data and suggests new escape routes, reminding us that our data can be remade to tell different stories’
-- Professor Kate Crawford, author of ‘Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence’
'The book that I’ve long been waiting for, one that takes a material approach to the data geographies informing and being informed by technologies of everyday life’
-- Erin McElroy, Assistant Professor of American and Digital Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
'Data Power is an activist handbook wrapped in a theoretical treatise inside a media manifesto. The authors have a lively set of suggestions that provide a welcome antidote to the temptations of resignation and complacency'
-- Mark Andrejevic, Professor in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Technology and the Axes of Hope and Fear
1. Life in the Age of Big Data
2. What Are Our Data, and What Are They Worth?
3. Existing Everyday Resistances
4. Contesting the Data Spectacle
5. Our Data Are Us, So Make Them Ours
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
