Book review : Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data feminism

Abstract

Our lives are increasingly subject to datafication. Nothing about us is out of its growing reach. Data collected, both online and offline, about our behaviours, routines, and preferences, are being transformed into monetized and/or securitized data within an expanding data economy, or what Shoshana Zuboff (2019) calls ‘surveillance capitalism’. Further, most data are often considered neutral and objective, as though it were raw material existing in the world waiting for discovery and usage. [excerpt]