Name: Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature (en Inglés)
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Author: Johnston, Katherine D.
ISBN: 9781609388935

portada Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature (en Inglés)

Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Katherine D. Johnston

Editorial

University of Iowa Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

226

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x2 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781609388935

Categorías

Estudios literarios: desde c. 2000
Cuestiones y debates éticos

Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature (en Inglés)

Katherine D. Johnston (Autor) · University of Iowa Press · Tapa Blanda

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Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. These stories are being told inside boardrooms, banks, presidential briefings, police stations, advertising agencies, and technology companies. And so, to the extent that data has taken up storytelling, literature must take up data. After all, profiling coincides with character development; surveillance reflects point of view; and data points track as plot points in tales of the political economy. In Profiles and Plotlines, Katherine Johnston engages this energetic reformation of contemporary literature to account for a society and economy of frenetic counting. Fiction and poetry are capable of addressing precisely that for which algorithms cannot or do not account: the effects of profile culture; the ideologies and supposed truth-power of data; the gendered and racialized dynamics of watching and being watched; and the politics of who counts and what gets counted. Johnston analyzes prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson to probe how the claims of data surveillance serve to make lives seem legible, intelligible, and sometimes even expendable.