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Data Lives : How Data Are Made and Shape Our World.

By: Kitchin, Rob.
Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press, ©2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st ed.Description: 276 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529215144.Genre/Form: Print books.
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.
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.
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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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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.

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