DATA POWER

The 2017 Data Power Conference focuses on critical questions about data's power, reflecting on social, political, economic and cultural consequences of data becoming increasingly pervasive in our lives. From precision agriculture to smart cities, surveillance to global finance, data (and data infrastructures) shape our lives, as information is generated, collected and analysed through the apps we use, in ways that are obvious and imperceptible: where black-boxed algorithms and opaque systems are used to profile and sort us, direct our spending and monitor our actions... As always, the Data Power Conference remains concerned with in/equalities, discrimination, questions of justice, rights and freedoms, and agency and resistance... The 5th International Data Power focuses on situating data practices and looking ‘beyond data universalism' (Milan and Treré, 2019).

Also known as: data power conference

Primary location: Carleton Canada