The Bottom of the Data Pyramid: Big Data and the Global South

By P. Arora. 2016

How researchers see this paper

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1. Nick Couldry
2. Ulises A. Mejias
3. Linnet Taylor

Citations in the corpus

• What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally (2017, background): “…framing of the needs for both visibility and informational privacy should take into account the work being done on privacy at the social margins (Arora, 2016; Gilliom, 2001; Jayaram, 2014), the risks to group privacy through collective profiling (Taylor, 2016b; Floridi, 2014; Raymond, 2016) and…”
• Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject (2018, background): “In response, we must recover a site of resistance which confronts the new and distinctive appropriations of twenty-first-century capitalism, as practices of data processing are played out across a global terrain of differentiated exploitation (Arora 2016).”
• Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism (2019, unknown): “The relentless push toward datafication, with its deleterious consequences for people and communities on the ground, seems to exacerbate this process, prompting us to ask whether we are facing the next stage of what Santos (2014) denounced as the “epistemicide” of the South.”