Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life (Paperback)

Acknowledgments vii
Prologue: Everyday Life in the Data Age: Three Short Tales 1
1 The Rise of Digital Data in Everyday Life 7
2 What Is Data? 29
3 Thinking Theoretically about Data 53
4 Toward a New Approach: Critical Data Literacies 75
5 Making Sense of Digital Data: Understanding Data in Everyday Life 95
6 Managing, Accessing, and Protecting Data: Strategies for Living in a Datafied Society 117
7 Reappropriating and Resisting Digital Data: Collective Tactics and Activism 137
8 Data Futures 159
Glossary 181
References 189
Index 205