Title & Author:

Lives of data : essays on computational cultures from India / edited by Sandeep Mertia ; foreword by Ravi Sundaram.

Publication:

[Amsterdam] : Institute of Network Cultures, [2020]

Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Theory on demand ; #39

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Ravi Sundaram -- Introduction : relationalities abound / Sandeep Mertia -- Did Mahalanobis dream of androids? / Sandeep Mertia -- Programming the intermission : 'big data', software, and Indian cinema / Karl Mendonca -- Number, probability, and community : the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model and counterfactual futures in cricket / Sivakumar Arumugam -- Study of the imbrication : a methodological maxim to follow the multiple lives of data / Ranjit Singh -- Data lives of humanities text / Puthiya Purayil Sneha -- Hackathons : labor, politics, and the organization of public passions / Lilly Irani -- Reporting the world's largest biometric project / Anumeha Yadav -- Broken data : repairs in the production of biometric bodies / Preeti Mudliar -- Outline India : field notes on data practices and innovations / Prerna Mukharya and Mahima Taneja -- Collecting open data : data practices, tools, limitations, and politics / Guneet Narula -- Making India's budgets machinable / Gaurav Godhwani -- Hisaab-Kitaab in big data : finding relief from calculative logics / Noopur Raval -- Untidy data : spreadsheet practices in the Indian bureaucracy / Aakash Solanki -- The work of waiting : syndromic surveillance and the paradox of immediacy / Anirudh Raghavan.
"This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"--Page 2.

Summary:

"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."-- provided by distributor.

ISBN:

9789492302700
9492302705

Subject:

Big data India.
Données volumineuses Inde.
Big data
India

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Open access resources.
Collections

Added entries:

Mertia, Sandeep, editor.
Sundaram, Ravi, writer of foreword.
Theory on demand ; #39.

Essays on computational cultures from India