[Commlist] New book: Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India

Sandeep Mertia is happy to announce the publication of my edited volume, 
"Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India", with the 
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 
<https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-computational-cultures-from-india/ 
<https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-computational-cultures-from-india/>>. 
It is available for download in ePub and PDF formats and for 
print-on-demand orders (Creative Commons 
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International).


Foreword by Ravi Sundaram. Authors: Sandeep Mertia, Karl Mendonca, 
Sivakumar Arumugam, Ranjit Singh, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Lilly Irani, 
Anumeha Yadav, Preeti Mudliar, Prerna Mukharya and Mahima Taneja, Guneet 
Narula, Gaurav Godhwani, Noopur Raval, Aakash Solanki, and Anirudh Raghavan.

Blurb:

‘Lives of Data’ maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, 
computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more 
global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical 
possibilities of big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding 
under the long shadows cast by infra/structural inequalities, 
colonialism, modernization, and national sovereignty. This book offers 
critical vantage points for looking at big data and its shadows, as they 
play out in uneven encounters of machinic and cultural relationalities 
of data in India’s socio-politically disparate and diverse contexts.

‘Lives of Data’ emerged from research projects and workshops at the 
Sarai programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. It brings 
together fifteen interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to set up 
a collaborative research agenda on computational cultures. The essays 
offer wide-ranging analyses of media and techno-scientific trajectories 
of data analytics, disruptive formations of digital economy, and the 
grounded practices of data-driven governance in India.Encompassing 
history, anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), media 
studies, civic technology, data science, digital humanities, and 
journalism, the essays open up possibilities for a truly situated global 
and sociotechnically specific understanding of the many lives of data.

Reviews:

"This remarkable collection is the first major portrait and assessment 
of the social and technical relationalities that constitute the ecology 
of big data in India today. Equally remarkably, the authors represent 
the first generation of scholars of digital media who speak through an 
Indian lens while being totally conversant with the cutting edge of 
global scholarship on big data."

— Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and 
Communication, New York University

"Wide-ranging and incisive, Lives of Data is essential reading for those 
who wish to understand the seductions and contingencies of being or 
becoming data-driven."

— Lisa Gitelman, author, ‘Paper Knowledge’ and editor, ‘‘Raw Data’ Is an 
Oxymoron’



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