{"title":"Anita Say Chan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnita Say Chan\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersections of data, culture, and society with insightful clarity. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003ePredatory Data\u003c\/em\u003e, offers a critical examination of how information shapes identity and power dynamics in the digital era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking analysis that challenges conventional views on technology and ethics, blending rigorous research with accessible language. Chan’s books invite reflection on the deep implications of data in everyday life and global structures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"predatory-data-by-anita-say-chan-9780520402843","title":"Predatory Data","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive \"big data\" regimes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePredatory Data\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritised actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.luminosoa.org\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e to learn more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597530841324,"sku":"9780520402843","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/78f27be0b8fce53ce01fa9194f15bcc4.jpg?v=1777957981"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/anita-say-chan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}