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Author
Herian, Robert, author.
Title
Data : new trajectories in law / Robert Herian.
Imprint
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Description
1 online resource (131 pages).
Series
New trajectories in law.
Formatted Contents Note
Information classification : general contents introduction
Beautiful machines and bureaucratic dreams
Somewhere between privacy and protection
Being in data
Data with subject
Proximate data.
Beautiful machines and bureaucratic dreams
Somewhere between privacy and protection
Being in data
Data with subject
Proximate data.
Summary
"This book explores the phenomenon of data - big and small - in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context. Challenging the way in which legal interest in data has focused on rights and privacy concerns, this book examines the contestable, multivocal and multifaceted figure of the contemporary data subject. The book analyses "data" and "personal data" as contemporary phenomena, addressing the data realms, such as stores, institutions, systems and networks, out of which they emerge. It interrogates the role of law, regulation and governance in structuring both formal and informal definitions of the data subject, and disciplining data subjects through compliance with normative standards of conduct. Focusing on the 'personal' in and of data, the book pursues a re-evaluation of the nature, role and place of the data subject qua legal subject in on and offline societies: one that does not begin and end with the inviolability of individual rights but returns to more fundamental legal principles suited to considerations of personhood, such as stewardship, trust, property and contract. The book's concern with the production, use, abuse and alienation of personal data within the context of contemporary communicative capitalism will appeal to scholars and students of law, science and technology studies, and sociology; as well as those with broader political interests in this area"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"Routledge Focus" -- front cover.
Source of Description
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Location
www
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Access provided by Berkeley Law Library
Alternate Title
Taylor & Francis Online
Language
English
ISBN
9781000371413 electronic book
1000371417 electronic book
9781003162001 electronic book
1003162002 electronic book
9781000371475 (electronic book : EPUB)
1000371476 (electronic book : EPUB)
9780367477134 hardcover
1000371417 electronic book
9781003162001 electronic book
1003162002 electronic book
9781000371475 (electronic book : EPUB)
1000371476 (electronic book : EPUB)
9780367477134 hardcover
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