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Description: *Data Publics* is an international research project that investigates the political, economic and cultural conditions of data generation and the shaping of new public spheres.
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Data Publics is an international research project that investigates the political, economic and cultural conditions of data generation and the shaping of new public spheres.
The acceleration of data constitutes one of the most powerful transformative forces in the world today and is radically changing both the way we live our daily lives and processes operating on a global scale. In many everyday arenas, we are now taking advantage of the expanded possibilities and increased speed with which we can connect, exchange and interact beyond our immediate physical environment. Yet, along with improved convenience and heightened enjoyment, one of the most dominant experiences accompan
Unsurprisingly, much of the current debate about the public dimension of data spheres is dominated by questions of control. Mounting calls for users of digital platforms to start policing content themselves are indicative of the complexities involved in the constitution of “ data publics ”. While concepts of the public sphere elaborated within the analysis of modernity have been strongly informed by spatial analogies that foreground a physically tangible division between the public and the private, between
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