DataPublics
The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
Edited by Jannie Møller Hartley, Jannick Kirk Sørensen and David Mathieu
Published
31 Jul 2023Page count
216 pagesISBN
978-1529228625Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
31 Jul 2023Page count
216 pagesISBN
978-1529228649Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
DataPublics
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence
This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies.
The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, opening up new conditions for publics to display agency, mobilize and achieve legitimacy.
This is a seminal contribution to debates about the future of media, journalism and civic practices.
“Drawing on rich and wide-ranging empirical evidence to challenge simplistic accounts of the role of digital technologies in shaping public life, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of democracies.” Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University
Jannie Møller Hartley is Associate Professor at Roskilde University.
Jannick Kirk Sørensen is Associate Professor at Aalborg University.
David Mathieu is Associate Professor at Roskilde University.
1. Introduction: Datapublics Beyond the Rise and Fall Narrative - Jannie Møller Hartley, David Mathieu and Jannick Kirk Sørensen
Part 1: Agentic Publics
2. Deconstructing the Notion of Algorithmic Control over Datapublics - David Mathieu
3. Counterpublicness and Hybrid Tactics across Physical and Mediated Spaces - Mette Bengtsson and Anna Schjøtt
4. Stratified Public Formation in Mundane Settings - Morten Fischer Sivertsen and Mikkeline Sofie Skjerning Thomsen
Part 2: Cultivated Publics
5. Imagining Publics through Emerging Technologies - Jannie Møller Hartley and Anna Schjøtt
6. Personalization Logics and Publics by Design - Jannie Møller Hartley, Anna Schjøtt and Jannick Kirk Sørensen
Part 3: Infrastructured Publics
7. Classifying the News: Metadata as Structures of Visibility and Compliance with Tech Standards - Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen
8. Infrastructuring Publics: Datafied Infrastructures of the News Media - Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen
9. Conclusion: Datapublics as a Site of Struggles - David Mathieu and Jannie Møller Hartley
