Data Lives

How Data Are Made and Shape Our World

By: Rob Kitchin

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Paperback | 3 March 2021 | Edition Number 1

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274 Pages

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Rob Kitchin explores how data-driven technologies have become essential to society, government and the economy by blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data influence our daily lives.

The word 'data' has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? In Data Lives , renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work.

Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. He reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.

About the Author

Rob Kitchin is a Professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Ireland. He is author/editor of a number of books about technology and society and is a recipient of the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

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