[csaa-forum] Data Politics and Power: Workshop with Professor Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths)

[Ned Rossiter]

Digital Life Research Program
Institute for Culture and Society
Western Sydney University

Data Politics and Power
Workshop with Professor Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths)
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/data_politics_and_power

Date: 8 December 2016
Time: 10.30am – 1.30pm
Venue: EB.2.18, Parramatta Campus
Convenors: Ned Rossiter and Liam Magee

Summary
Before assemblages and agency, rights and privacy, access and distribution, there is data. The politics of data presupposes a political frame that serves as a template through which digital conditions are made intelligible and actionable. Data politics, by contrast, are a generative force that make possible ‘worlds, subjects and rights’. For Evelyn Ruppert, Engin Isin and Didier Bigo, data politics contribute to the ‘transformation of data subjects into data citizens’ (forthcoming 2017). We might also draw connections between data politics and debates in German media theory (Kittler), Canadian communications (Innis), data ontologies and the materiality and technics of communication more broadly. This workshop explores these ideas and encourages participants to cast their own research in terms of data politics.

Bio
Evelyn Ruppert<http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/academicstaff/ruppertevelyn/> is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She studies the sociology of data specifically in relation to how different kinds of digital data are constituted and mobilised to enact and govern populations. Evelyn is PI of a five-year European Research Council funded project, Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS<http://www.arithmus.eu/>; 2014-19). She is also Founding and Editor-in-chief of a SAGE open access journal, Big Data & Society<http://bigdatasoc.blogspot.co.uk/>: Critical Interdisciplinary Inquiries, launched in June 2014. Recent books are Being Digital Citizens<http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/being-digital-citizens> (authored with Engin Isin) published in April 2015 (RLI International) and Modes of Knowing<https://www.matteringpress.org/news/first-books-modes-knowing> (edited with John Law) published in August 2016 (Mattering Press).

Participant numbers are limited. Preparatory readings by Evelyn Ruppert will be mailed separately to participants.

Light catering will be provided.

Please register here: http://tinyurl.com/z7tz8k3

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Ned Rossiter
Professor of Communication
Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Western Sydney University
Parramatta Campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia

Tel. +61-2-9685-9600
Fax. +61-2-9685-9610



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