15. Investigating the Datafied Society: Entrepreneurial Research as Approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 9
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. Introduction: Situating Data as Cultural Inquiry 13
6. Part 1 Practices
7. 1. Coffee Roasters’ Data Vernacular: On the Entanglement of Digital Data and Craft 31
8. 2. The Agricultural Data Imaginary: Precision Farming’s Reinforcement of the Productivist Approach to Agriculture 49
9. 3. Controversing Datafication through Media Architectures 67
10. 4. Streaming against the Environment: Digital Infrastructures, Video Compression, and the Environmental Footprint of Video Streaming 85
11. 5. Out of the Bin, into the Open: Looking at the Mediating and Performing Material Afterlives of Data 103
12. Part 2 Justice
13. 6. Data as Boundary Objects, Datafication as Boundary Work 123
14. 7. The Datafication of Racialization and the Pursuit of Equality: The Case of the “Barometer Culturele Diversiteit” 141
15. 8. Caged by Data: Exposing the Politics of Facial Recognition Through Zach Blas’s Face Cages 159
16. 9. Dirty Computers versus the New Jim Code: Janelle Monáe’s Datafied Performance 173
17. Part 3 Knowledges
18. 10. How Eva Louise Young (1861–1939) Found Me: On the Performance of Metadata in Knowledge Production 189
19. 11. Interstitial Data: Tracing Metadata in Archival Search Systems 207
20. 12. Data and Algorithms in Transition: A Diachronic Affordance Analysis Perspective 223
21. 13. Schooled by Dashboards? Learning Platforms’ Performance-Centered Pedagogy and Its Impact on Teaching 241
22. Part 4 Agendas
23. 14. Creative Urban Methods for the Datafied City 257
24. 15. Investigating the Datafied Society: Entrepreneurial Research as Approach 267
25. 16. Big Data and the Global South: A Case for Dialogue 273
26. 17. Situating the Marketization of Data 279
27. Index of Concepts 287