Our families are being turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.
| ISBN: | 9780262044714 |
| Publication date: | 22nd December 2020 |
| Author: | Veronica Barassi |
| Publisher: | The MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Technology: general issues |
Our families are being turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.
Child Data Citizen features in the following genres: Technology: general issues
Child Data Citizen is available in Ebook, Paperback
Child Data Citizen was written by Veronica Barassi and published by The MIT Press
Child Data Citizen has 208 pages