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Digital, politics, and algorithms: Governing digital data through the lens of data protection

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Bellanova, Rocco [USL-B]

Many actors mobilize the cognitive, legal and technical tool-box of data protection when they discuss and address controversial issues such as digital mass surveillance. Yet, critical approaches to the digital only barely explore the politics of data protection in relation to data-driven governance. Building on governmentality studies and Actor- Network-Theory, this article analyses the potential and limits of using data protection to critique the ‘digital age’. Using the conceptual tool of dispositifs, it sketches an analytics of data protection and the emergence of its configuration as ‘data protection by design and by default’. This exploration reminds us that governing through data implies, first and foremost, governing digital data.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2017
Language Anglais
Journal information "European Journal of Social Theory" - Vol. 20, no.3, p. 329-347 (2017)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd. (London)
issn 1368-4310
e-issn 1461-7137
Publication status Publié
Affiliations USL-B - Institut d'études européennes (IEE)
USL-B - Centre de recherches en science politique (CReSPo)
UCL - SSH/IRIS-L/IEE - Institut d'études européennes
UCL - SSH/IRIS-L/CRSP - Centre de recherche en science politique
Keywords algorithms ; data protection ; digital ; digital data ; governmentality ; politics
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Bibliographic reference Bellanova, Rocco. Digital, politics, and algorithms: Governing digital data through the lens of data protection. In: European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 20, no.3, p. 329-347 (2017)
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