📗 Libro en inglés PREDATORY DATA

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