3 Machine Learning and the Queer Technics of Opacity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Black Data 17
6. 2 “To Fight for an End to Intrusions into the Sex Lives of Americans” - Gay and Lesbian Resistance to Sexual Surveillance and Data Collection, 1945–1972 49
7. 3 Machine Learning and the Queer Technics of Opacity 83
8. 4 Objectionable Nipples. Puritan Data Politics and Sexual Agency in Social Media 107
9. 5 HIV Data as Queer Data. Biomedical Sexualities, Treatmentas- Prevention, and the New Sex Hierarchy for People Living with HIV 128
10. 6 Generated Vulnerability. Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security 155
11. 7 Not Enough Meaningful Data? Lessons from Eastern Europe 173
12. 8 Reciprocating Sexy Information. Reflections on Studying the Data of Gay Sex in Beirut 205
13. 9 Homobiles. Queering Data through Ephemerality and Intimacy 228
14. 10 Situated Indications. Queer STS Experiments on Global Datafication 253
15. List of Contributors 287
16. Index 291