{"product_id":"predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-9780520402843","title":"Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive \"big data\" regimes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePredatory Data\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data.  \u003cbr\u003e While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice. \u003cp\u003e A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anita Say Chan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.98w x 1.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520402843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnita Say Chan\u003c\/b\u003e is a feminist and decolonial scholar of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Media Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Anita Say Chan \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47284226719901,"sku":"9780520402843","price":55.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_2e702704-b95e-4b42-b605-c1b5af56acc1.jpg?v=1759982806","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/predatory-data-eugenics-in-big-tech-and-our-fight-for-an-independent-future-9780520402843","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}