{"product_id":"uncertain-archives-isbn-9780262539883","title":"Uncertain Archives","description":"\u003cb\u003eScholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.1 Abuse 29 \u003cbr\u003e2 Affect 37 \u003cbr\u003e3 Aggregation 47 \u003cbr\u003e4 Algorithmic Racism 57 \u003cbr\u003e5 Bots 65 \u003cbr\u003e6 Care 75\u003cbr\u003e7 Complicity 87 \u003cbr\u003e8 Conversational Agents 99 \u003cbr\u003e9 Cooling 109 \u003cbr\u003e10 Copynorms 115 \u003cbr\u003e11 Database 125\u003cbr\u003e12 Demo 133\u003cbr\u003e13 Detox 141\u003cbr\u003e14 Digital Assistants 151 \u003cbr\u003e 15 Digital Humanities 161\u003cbr\u003e16 DNA 171 \u003cbr\u003e17 Drone 179\u003cbr\u003e18 Error 191 \u003cbr\u003e19 Ethics 201 \u003cbr\u003e20 Executing 209 \u003cbr\u003e21 Expertise 217 \u003cbr\u003e22 Field 227 \u003cbr\u003e23 Figura 235 \u003cbr\u003e 24 File 241\u003cbr\u003e 25 Flesh 249 \u003cbr\u003e 26 Glitch 259 \u003cbr\u003e27 Hashtag Archiving 271\u003cbr\u003e28 Hauntology 279\u003cbr\u003e29 Instrumentality 289\u003cbr\u003e30 Interface 299 \u003cbr\u003e31 Intersectionality 305 \u003cbr\u003e 32 Latency 313 \u003cbr\u003e33 Metadata 321\u003cbr\u003e34 Migrationmapping 331 \u003cbr\u003e35 (Mis)gendering 339 \u003cbr\u003e36 Misreading 347 \u003cbr\u003e37 Natural 353 \u003cbr\u003e38 Obfuscation 359 \u003cbr\u003e39 Organization 369 \u003cbr\u003e40 Outlier 377 \u003cbr\u003e41 Performative Measure 389 \u003cbr\u003e42 Pornography 397 \u003cbr\u003e 43 Prediction 403 \u003cbr\u003e 44 Proxies 419 \u003cbr\u003e45 Quantification 427 \u003cbr\u003e46 Remains 433 \u003cbr\u003e47 Reparative 443 \u003cbr\u003e48 Self-Tracking 457 \u003cbr\u003e49 Shifters 469 \u003cbr\u003e 50 Sorting 477 \u003cbr\u003e51 Stand-In 485 \u003cbr\u003e52 Supply Chain 493\u003cbr\u003e53 Technoheritage 499 \u003cbr\u003e 54 Throbber 513\u003cbr\u003e 55 Time.now 523\u003cbr\u003e 56 Unpredictability 533 \u003cbr\u003e57 Unthought 541 \u003cbr\u003e58 Values 551 \u003cbr\u003e59 Visualization 561 \u003cbr\u003e60 Vulnerability 569\u003cbr\u003e 61 Word 579 \u003cbr\u003eContributors 585\u003cbr\u003e Index 597\u003ci\u003e\"Uncertain Archives\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive book, both in the sense that it is an extensive and well executed piece of work, and in the sense that it makes an impression on the reader. [ . . . It] provides rich, original, and valuable insights into fundamental issues in society, which at the same time run deep and are changing rapidly.”—\u003ci\u003eNordic Journal of Library and Information Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thus, particularly for those engaged in the digital humanities, this keyword glossary offers a significant starting point for further investigation, interrogation, and adaptation of big-data methodologies.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—David Reamer, University of Tampa; \u003ci\u003eJournal of Business and Technical Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Rehabilitating uncertainty as a framework for learning, \u003ci\u003eUncertain Archives\u003c\/i\u003e is a vade mecum not only for academic researchers and media practitioners engaged in critical data or archival studies but also for anyone who is willing to explore the complexities of big data archives at the crossroad between humans and machines.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Guilia Taurino, Northeastern University; \u003ci\u003eInformation and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book comes at a time when both archival practice and the academic discipline of archival studies are accelerating their interrogation of the social and political contexts of archives and records, where questions of inclusion, exclusion, management, use, survival, labour, preservation and impact come into play. The focus on big data in this volume, whilst not always made explicit in relation to archives, enables the reader to critically engage with the uncertainty that technological developments bring with them. Whilst it need not be on every archivist’s shelf, it does need to be readily available in reference libraries and on reading lists as a glossary of vital concerns and central concepts.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Jessamy Harvey, \u003ci\u003eArchives and Records\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The volume as a whole will particularly appeal to scholars from across STS, applied data science, digital humanities and many others thinking about and with data across disciplines … For a project aiming not to define or chart a field but to help construct an ‘engaged alliance’ for critical thinking and action around big data, Uncertain Archives makes a valuable contribution.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Catriona Gray, \u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Thylstrup, Agostinho, Ring, D’Ignazio, and Veel’s \u003ci\u003eUncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data\u003c\/i\u003e is in many ways an extraordinary piece of scientific work. Consisting of 640 pages with 61 chapters authored by no less than 73 contributors, the book offers a substantial addition to existing scholarship on the societal consequences of the large scale datafication of modern life. Yet it is not only the sheer size of the book or its well-crafted composition that is remarkable, but also—and more importantly—the rich insights it presents.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Maja Bak Herrie, \u003ci\u003eThe Nordic Journal of Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Mass Digitization\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).Daniela Agostinho is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.Annie Ring is Associate Professor in the School of European Languages, Culture, and Society at University College London, and author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Stasi\u003c\/i\u003e. Catherine D'Ignazio is Assistant Professor of Data Visualization and Civic Media at Emerson College and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eData Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). Kristin Veel is Associate Professor at the Department for Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTower to Tower\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303820382437,"sku":"NP9780262539883","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539883.jpg?v=1767743193","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/uncertain-archives-isbn-9780262539883","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}