The Sage Handbook of Data and Society

Tommaso Venturini is Associate Professor at the Medialab of the University of Geneva, researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet & Society, and founder of the Public Data Lab. He has been “advanced research fellow” at INRIA, “digital methods lecturer” at King′s College London, and “research coordinator” of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris. His work lies at the intersection of media studies and science and technology studies. His research focuses on digital methods, Internet subcultures, the online attention economy, and controversy mapping.Amelia Acker is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information, where she leads the Critical Data Studies Lab. Her research on data archives and preservation has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship. Acker’s research agenda focuses on cultures of mobile computing, emerging digital preservation models, data literacy, personal information management, and metadata standards for data access between private and public archives.Jean-Christophe Plantin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching focus on the infrastructural power of tech giants, the platformization of cybersecurity, gaming, and library data, and the invisible labor of cleaning data infrastructure. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in Communication and Information Studies from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France.Tone Walford is an Associate Professor of Digital Anthropology at University College London. Their research explores the effects of the exponential growth of digital data on social and cultural imaginaries and practices, with an ethnographic focus on emergent forms of data-driven environmental politics and scientific subjectivities in Brazil. They previously held post-doctoral positions at the Open University, Copenhagen University, and University of Warwick.

• Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordSection 1: Infrastructures of DataSection 1 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter One: The Materiality of Data and Infrastructure - Ayesha Omer & Ben MendelsohnChapter Two: Maintaining Data Infrastructures - Steven J. Jackson, Jen Liu, Ranjit Singh, and Samir PassiChapter Three: Scaling up Directions for critical studies of data infrastructure - Signe Sophus Lai & Sofie FlensburgChapter 4: Data Infrastructures and their Temporalities - Julia VelkovaSection 2: Labor of DataSection 2 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter 5: Revealing invisible information labor - Greg DowneyChapter 6: Data labor and collective mobilization - Sofia Daniela NegriChapter 7: Free Labor and Data Labor in the Digital Economy - Rafael GrohmannSection 3: Power and Struggles of DataSection 3 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter 8: The datafication of difference: states, borders, (in)security - Claudia AradauChapter 9: Data Justice in Mexico - Ernesto Schwarz-Merin, Arely Cruz Santiago, Conor O′ReillyChapter 10: Social Research and Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Jacob Prehn, Cassandra Price, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Maggie Walter, Ray Lovett Chapter 11: Community Data Initiatives: Fostering Relational Engagement in Data Practices and Situated Accountability from Dominant Knowledge Institutions - Anita Say Chan and Patricia GarciaSection 4: Data and Crises of NatureSection 4 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter 12: Knowing Nature Through Data - Cindy LinChapter 13: From the Environmental Right to Know to Environmental Data Justice - Lourdes Vera, Kelsey Bresemen, Cole Alder and Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)Chapter 14: (Data) Clouds in Untainted Skies above Brave New Worlds: anti-utopian narratives of environmental data practices. - Lydia GibsonSection 5: Data and the BodySection 5 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter 15: The Co-Constitution of Race and Data - Camille CrichlowChapter 16: The datafication of African health and bodies, past and present - Cal BirukChapter 17: Genome sequencing: challenges for equity and sustainability in an age of big data - Gabrielle Samuel, Rachel Horton, Kate Lyle, Susie Weller, Anneke LucassenChapter 18: The Quantified Self and Beyond: Situated Data Practices and Scope Creep - Suneel JethaniChapter 19: Data Violence - Os Keyes and Katherine CrossChapter 20: 404 Not Found: Quantitative Methods in Disability Studies - Enka Blanchard, Aurélien Blanchard and Ashley ShewSection 6: The Sciences of DataSection 6 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter 21: Blurring Boundaries: Digital data and critical methods in media and technology studies - Patrick JonesChapter 22: After content moderation: The return of trace research for the study of platform effects - Emillie de Keulenaar & Richard RogersChapter 23: Rethinking Community Information Visualization: Collaborative and Redistributive Approaches - Roopika RisamChapter 24: Social research according to computers - Adrian MackenzieSection 7: Disciplines of DataSection 7 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone WalfordChapter 25: Data according to space, space according to data - Julia WagnerChapter 26: Data according to culture & culture according to data - Anders Munk & Anders Koed MadsenChapter 27: Data design as a frictional layer. Data collections and design actions to produce discursive communication artifacts - Andrea Benedetti & Michele MauriChapter 28: Data according to critical approaches and critical approaches engaging data: from capture to care - Carina Albrecht & Wendy HK Chun