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 medialab 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 Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, 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 Walford Section 1: Infrastructures of Data Section 1 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter One: The Materiality of Data and Infrastructure - Ayesha Omer & Ben Mendelsohn Chapter Two: Maintaining Data Infrastructures - Steven J. Jackson, Jen Liu, Ranjit Singh, and Samir Passi Chapter Three: Scaling up Directions for critical studies of data infrastructure - Signe Sophus Lai & Sofie Flensburg Chapter 4: Data Infrastructures and their Temporalities - Julia Velkova Section 2: Labor of Data Section 2 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter 5: Revealing invisible information labor - Greg Downey Chapter 6: Data labor and collective mobilization - Sofia Daniela Negri Chapter 7: Free Labor and Data Labor in the Digital Economy - Rafael Grohmann Section 3: Power and Struggles of Data Section 3 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter 8: The datafication of difference: states, borders, (in)security - Claudia Aradau Chapter 9: Data Justice in Mexico - Ernesto Schwarz-Merin, Arely Cruz Santiago, Conor O'Reilly Chapter 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 Garcia Section 4: Data and Crises of Nature Section 4 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter 12: Knowing Nature Through Data - Cindy Lin Chapter 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 Gibson Section 5: Data and the Body Section 5 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter 15: The Co-Constitution of Race and Data - Camille Crichlow Chapter 16: The datafication of African health and bodies, past and present - Cal Biruk Chapter 17: Genome sequencing: challenges for equity and sustainability in an age of big data - Gabrielle Samuel, Rachel Horton, Kate Lyle, Susie Weller, Anneke Lucassen Chapter 18: The Quantified Self and Beyond: Situated Data Practices and Scope Creep - Suneel Jethani Chapter 19: Data Violence - Os Keyes and Katherine Cross Chapter 20: 404 Not Found: Quantitative Methods in Disability Studies - Enka Blanchard, Aurelien Blanchard and Ashley Shew Section 6: The Sciences of Data Section 6 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter 21: Blurring Boundaries: Digital data and critical methods in media and technology studies - Patrick Jones Chapter 22: After content moderation: The return of trace research for the study of platform effects - Emillie de Keulenaar & Richard Rogers Chapter 23: Rethinking Community Information Visualization: Collaborative and Redistributive Approaches - Roopika Risam Chapter 24: Social research according to computers - Adrian Mackenzie Section 7: Disciplines of Data Section 7 Introduction - Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Tone Walford Chapter 25: Data according to space, space according to data - Julia Wagner Chapter 26: Data according to culture & culture according to data - Anders Munk & Anders Koed Madsen Chapter 27: Data design as a frictional layer. Data collections and design actions to produce discursive communication artifacts - Andrea Benedetti & Michele Mauri Chapter 28: Data according to critical approaches and critical approaches engaging data: from capture to care - Carina Albrecht & Wendy HK Chun