Mertia, Sandeep2023-02-072023-02-0720209789492302700https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/lives-of-data-essays-on-computational-cultures-from-india/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20433Lives of Data maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big data, computing, and society in India. Data infrastructures are now more global than ever before. In much of the world, new sociotechnical possibilities of big data and artificial intelligence are unfolding under the long shadows cast by infra/structural inequalities, colonialism, modernization, and national sovereignty. This book offers critical vantage points for looking at big data and its shadows, as they play out in uneven encounters of machinic and cultural relationalities of data in India’s socio-politically disparate and diverse contexts. Lives of Data emerged from research projects and workshops at the Sarai programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. It brings together fifteen interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to set up a collaborative research agenda on computational cultures. The essays offer wide-ranging analyses of media and techno-scientific trajectories of data analytics, disruptive formations of digital economy, and the grounded practices of data-driven governance in India. Encompassing history, anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), media studies, civic technology, data science, digital humanities, and journalism, the essays open up possibilities for a truly situated global and sociotechnically specific understanding of the many lives of data.<ul> <li><a href='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=8'>Ravi Sundaram: <i>FOREWORD</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20437/TOD_42_Vilenica_2021_Radical-Housing_.pdf#page=11'>Sandeep Mertia: <i>INTRODUCTION: RELATIONALITIES ABOUND</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>HISTORIES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=28'>Sandeep Mertia: <i>01. DID MAHALANOBIS DREAM OF ANDROIDS?</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=36'>Karl Mendonca: <i>02. PROGRAMMING THE INTERMISSION: ‘BIG DATA’, SOFTWARE, AND INDIAN CINEMA</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=36'>Karl Mendonca: <i>02. PROGRAMMING THE INTERMISSION: ‘BIG DATA’, SOFTWARE, AND INDIAN CINEMA</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>FORMS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=44'>Sivakumar Arumugam: <i>03. NUMBER, PROBABILITY, AND COMMUNITY: THE DUCKWORTH-LEWIS-STERN DATA MODEL AND COUNTERFACTUAL FUTURES IN CRICKET</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=53'>Ranjit Singh: <i>04. STUDY THE IMBRICATION: A METHODOLOGICAL MAXIM TO FOLLOW THE MULTIPLE LIVES OF DATA</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=62'>Puthiya Purayil Sneha: <i>05. DATA LIVES OF HUMANITIES TEXT</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>POLITICAL DESIGNS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=70'>Lilly Irani: <i>06. HACKATHONS: LABOR, POLITICS, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC PASSIONS</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=81'>Anumeha Yadav: <i>07. REPORTING THE WORLD’S LARGEST BIOMETRIC PROJECT</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=91'>Preeti Mudliar: <i>08. BROKEN DATA: REPAIRS IN THE PRODUCTION OF BIOMETRIC BODIES</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>PRACTICES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=101'>Prerna Mukharya and Mahima Taneja: <i>09. OUTLINE INDIA: FIELD NOTES ON DATA PRACTICES AND INNOVATIONS</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=110'>Guneet Narula: <i>10. COLLECTING OPEN DATA: DATA PRACTICES, TOOLS, LIMITATIONS, AND POLITICS</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=115'>Gaurav Godhwani: <i>11. MAKING INDIA’S BUDGETS MACHINABLE</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=115'>Gaurav Godhwani: <i>11. MAKING INDIA’S BUDGETS MACHINABLE</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>FIELDS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=130'>Noopur Raval: <i>12. HISAAB KITAAB IN BIG DATA: FINDING RELIEF FROM CALCULATIVE LOGICS</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=138'>Aakash Solanki: <i>13. UNTIDY DATA: SPREADSHEET PRACTICES IN THE INDIAN BUREAUCRACY</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20433/TOD_39_Mertia_2020_Lives-of-Data_.pdf #page=149'>Anirudh Raghavan: <i>14. THE WORK OF WAITING: SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE AND THE PARADOX OF IMMEDIACY</i></a></li>engDataIndiaComputational CulturesInfrastructures79110.25969/mediarep/19259