[Air-L] Special Issue 'Big Data from the South'

[Milan, Stefania]

Dear AoiR colleagues and friends

We are happy to announce the publication of a Special Issue of Television & New Media exploring ‘Big Data from the South’. Edited by Stefania Milan (DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam) and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University), it features six articles and a commentary:

Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré: 'Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism’ (Milan/Treré) (>> open access at https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419837739)
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias: Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject
Paola Ricaurte: Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance
Payal Arora: Decolonizing Privacy Studies
Monique Mann and Angela Daly: (Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism
Jean-Marie Chenou and Carolina Cepeda-Másmela: #NiUnaMenos: Data Activism From the Global South
María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord: Between Data Capitalism and Data Citizenship (commentary)

You can explore the Special Issue at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/current

To continue the conversation about Southern and resistant epistemologies of datafication (well beyond the 'Global South'!), visit the webpage of the Big Data from the South Initiative [1], check out the multilingual blog (and consider to contribute to it!), and join the dedicated mailing-list.
Enjoy! Stefania Milan y Emiliano Treré

[1] https://data-activism.net/publications/big-data-from-the-south/


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Stefania Milan
Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net
Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE (ERC Starting Grant 639379) | https://data-activism.net
Principal Investigator, ALEX (ERC Proof of Concept 825974) | https://algorithms.exposed (coming soon!)
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