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Extra-Activism: Counter-Mapping And Data Justice, Dorothy Kidd
Extra-Activism: Counter-Mapping And Data Justice, Dorothy Kidd
Media Studies
Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects of European imperialist and then capitalist extraction of natural resources. Geo-spatial instruments have been used since the fifteenth century to highlight potential sites of mineral, oil, and gas extraction, and inscribe European economic, cultural and political control across indigenous territories. Although indigenous groups consistently challenged maintained their territorial sovereignty, and resisted corporate and state surveillance practices, they were largely unable to withstand the combined onslaught of surveyors, armed personnel, missionaries and government bureaucrats. This article examines …
Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms, Dorothy Kidd
Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms, Dorothy Kidd
Media Studies
Review of Treré, Emiliano. Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-21814-7.