[SIGCIS-Members] [Book Announcement] Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India

[James Cortada]

Fascinating topic and wwe need so much more research on what is happening
in India today so a good idea for a project.  Congratulations. Jim

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:50 AM Janet Abbate <abbate at vt.edu> wrote:

> This looks terrific! Thanks for making it open access, my students will
> appreciate it.
>
> Dr. Janet Abbate
> Professor, Science, Technology and Society
> Virginia Tech
> Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program
> liberalarts.vt.edu/sts
> www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechSTS
> https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/stsconnect/
>
> > On Dec 17, 2020, at 2:32 AM, Sandeep Mertia <sandeepmertia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > (Hope you are safe and well. Apologies for cross posting)
> >
> > I’m happy to announce the publication of my edited volume, "Lives of
> Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India", with the Institute of
> Network Cultures, Amsterdam <
> https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-computational-cultures-from-india/>.
> It is available for download in ePub and PDF formats and for
> print-on-demand orders (Creative Commons
> Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International).
> >
> > Foreword by Ravi Sundaram. Authors: Sandeep Mertia, Karl Mendonca,
> Sivakumar Arumugam, Ranjit Singh, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Lilly Irani,
> Anumeha Yadav, Preeti Mudliar, Prerna Mukharya and Mahima Taneja, Guneet
> Narula, Gaurav Godhwani, Noopur Raval, Aakash Solanki, and Anirudh Raghavan.
> >
> > Blurb:
> > Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data,
> computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global
> than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities of
> big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding under the long shadows
> cast by infra/structural inequalities, colonialism, modernization, and
> national sovereignty. This book offers critical vantage points for looking
> at big data and its shadows, as they play out in uneven encounters of
> machinic and cultural relationalities of data in India’s socio-politically
> disparate and diverse contexts.
> >
> > Lives of Data emerged from research projects and workshops at the Sarai
> programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. It brings together
> fifteen interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to set up a
> collaborative research agenda on computational cultures. The essays offer
> wide-ranging analyses of media and techno-scientific trajectories of data
> analytics, disruptive formations of digital economy, and the grounded
> practices of data-driven governance in India.Encompassing history,
> anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), media studies, civic
> technology, data science, digital humanities, and journalism, the essays
> open up possibilities for a truly situated global and sociotechnically
> specific understanding of the many lives of data.
> >
> > Reviews:
> > "This remarkable collection is the first major portrait and assessment
> of the social and technical relationalities that constitute the ecology of
> big data in India today. Equally remarkably, the authors represent the
> first generation of scholars of digital media who speak through an Indian
> lens while being totally conversant with the cutting edge of global
> scholarship on big data."
> > — Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and
> Communication, New York University
> >
> > "Wide-ranging and incisive, Lives of Data is essential reading for those
> who wish to understand the seductions and contingencies of being or
> becoming data-driven."
> > — Lisa Gitelman, author, Paper Knowledge and editor, ‘Raw Data’ Is an
> Oxymoron
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sandeep Mertia
> > PhD Candidate, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication
> > New York University
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James W. Cortada
Senior Research Fellow
Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
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