Data Politics and Power

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).