Datafication
Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, very often for economic val...
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2019-11-01
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| author | Ulises A. Mejias Nick Couldry |
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| description | Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, very often for economic value. This process has major social consequences. Disciplines such as political economy, critical data studies, software studies, legal theory, and—more recently— decolonial theory, have considered different aspects of those consequences to be important. Fundamental to all such approaches is the analysis of the intersection of power and knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d2942c2bea1c447c8879be4d5b943afd2025-08-20T02:46:43ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752019-11-018410.14763/2019.4.1428DataficationUlises A. Mejias0Nick Couldry1State University of New York at OswegoLondon School of Economics & Political ScienceDatafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, very often for economic value. This process has major social consequences. Disciplines such as political economy, critical data studies, software studies, legal theory, and—more recently— decolonial theory, have considered different aspects of those consequences to be important. Fundamental to all such approaches is the analysis of the intersection of power and knowledge.https://policyreview.info/node/1428DataCapitalismDigital mediaSocial quantification |
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| topic | Data Capitalism Digital media Social quantification |
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