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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anita Say ChanPublish date:2025-01-07Pages:262
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520402843ISBN-10:520402847UPC:9780520402843Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Technology Studies, Media Studies, Activism & Social JusticeSize:8.82 x 5.98 x 1.26 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCTJH0QZEX

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 is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520402843ISBN-10:520402847UPC:9780520402843Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Technology Studies, Media Studies, Activism & Social JusticeSize:8.82 x 5.98 x 1.26 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCTJH0QZEX
Anita Say Chan is a feminist and decolonial scholar of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Media Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Publisher: University of California Press

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