Contentious Data in Movement

This book explores the profound transformations brought about by the datafication of society, and reflects on the implications this has for activism, social movements, and contentious politics. It be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social movements, political science, social anthropology, and ethnography.

Autorentext

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies, Aarhus University. She is Editor in Chief of Social Movement Studies and founding editor of Interface Journal. Her latest books are Democracy Reloaded (2020) and Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020).

Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) works at the intersection of political participation, technology, and governance, with emphasis on infrastructure and agency. She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute).

Davide Beraldo is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. His research lies at the intersection of new media studies, computational social science, and the epistemology of complexity.

Inhalt

Introduction: Contentious Data in Movement 1. Data in movement: The social movement society in the age of datafication 2. "The future of the internet hangs in the balance": The perception and framing of political opportunity and threat in the contentious politics of data 3. Amplification, evasion, hijacking: Algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility 4. When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: Data activism meets place-based collective action 5. Doubt to be certain: Epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia 6. Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters' and government supporters' data strategies in the age of datafication 7. Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: Social movement demobilization in datafied societies 8. Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances - A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong 9. PROFILE: Revisiting the social movement society in a time of datafication 10. Data as narrative: Contesting the right to the word