Predatory Data (eBook)

Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

Anita Say Chan (Autor)

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2025
262 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40285-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and todays often violent and extractive big data regimes.Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth centurys 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.

Inhalt

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 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Artificial Intelligence • data pluralism • Decolonialism • digital safety • Eugenics • feminist • history of big data • Immigrants • Power • privacy rights • resistance • surveillance capitalism • technology data infrastructure • united states segregation
• ISBN-10: 0-520-40285-5 / 0520402855
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-40285-0 / 9780520402850