The Sage Handbook of Data and Society

About

Tommaso Venturini is Associate Professor at the Medialab of the University of Geneva researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet & Society and founder of the Public Data Lab. He has been advanced research fellow at INRIA digital methods lecturer at Kings College London and research coordinator of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris. His work lies at the intersection of media studies and science and technology studies. His research focuses on digital methods Internet subcultures the online attention economy and controversy mapping. Amelia Acker is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information where she leads the Critical Data Studies Lab. Her research on data archives and preservation has been funded by the US National Science Foundation the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship. Ackers research agenda focuses on cultures of mobile computing emerging digital preservation models data literacy personal information management and metadata standards for data access between private and public archives. Jean-Christophe Plantin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching focus on the infrastructural power of tech giants the platformization of cybersecurity gaming and library data and the invisible labor of cleaning data infrastructure. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in Communication and Information Studies from Université de Technologie de Compiègne France. Tone Walford is an Associate Professor of Digital Anthropology at University College London. Their research explores the effects of the exponential growth of digital data on social and cultural imaginaries and practices with an ethnographic focus on emergent forms of data-driven environmental politics and scientific subjectivities in Brazil. They previously held post-doctoral positions at the Open University Copenhagen University and University of Warwick.