Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture

Aking Up The Challenges Of The Datafication Of Culture, As Well As Of The Scholarship Of Cultural Inquiry Itself, This Collection Contributes To The Critical Debate About Data And Algorithms. How Can We Understand The Quality And Significance Of Current Socio-technical Transformations That Result From Datafication And Algorithmization? How Can We Explore The Changing Conditions And Contours For Living Within Such New And Changing Frameworks? How Can, Or Should We, Think And Act Within, But Also In Response To These Conditions? This Collection Brings Together Various Perspectives On The Datafication And Algorithmization Of Culture From Debates And Disciplines Within The Field Of Cultural Inquiry, Specifically (new) Media Studies, Game Studies, Urban Studies, Screen Studies, And Gender And Postcolonial Studies. It Proposes Conceptual And Methodological Directions For Exploring Where, When, And How Data And Algorithms (re)shape Cultural Practices, Create (in)justice, And (co)produce Knowledge. Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Situating Data As Cultural Inquiry -- Part 1 Practices -- 1. Coffee Roasters’ Data Vernacular: On The Entanglement Of Digital Data And Craft -- 2. The Agricultural Data Imaginary: Precision Farming’s Reinforcement Of The Productivist Approach To Agriculture -- 3. Controversing Datafication Through Media Architectures -- 4. Streaming Against The Environment: Digital Infrastructures, Video Compression, And The Environmental Footprint Of Video Streaming -- 5. Out Of The Bin, Into The Open: Looking At The Mediating And Performing Material Afterlives Of Data -- Part 2 Justice -- 6. Data As Boundary Objects, Datafication As Boundary Work -- 7. The Datafication Of Racialization And The Pursuit Of Equality: The Case Of The “barometer Culturele Diversiteit” -- 8. Caged By Data: Exposing The Politics Of Facial Recognition Through Zach Blas’s Face Cages -- 9. Dirty Computers Versus The New Jim Code: Janelle Monáe’s Datafied Performance -- Part 3 Knowledges -- 10. How Eva Louise Young (1861–1939) Found Me: On The Performance Of Metadata In Knowledge Production -- 11. Interstitial Data: Tracing Metadata In Archival Search Systems -- 12. Data And Algorithms In Transition: A Diachronic Affordance Analysis Perspective -- 13. Schooled By Dashboards? Learning Platforms’ Performance-centered Pedagogy And Its Impact On Teaching -- Part 4 Agendas -- 14. Creative Urban Methods For The Datafied City -- 15. Investigating The Datafied Society: Entrepreneurial Research As Approach -- 16. Big Data And The Global South: A Case For Dialogue -- 17. Situating The Marketization Of Data -- Index Of Concepts Ed. By Nanna Verhoeff, Karin Es. Includes Index. In English.