Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of data justice both the harms and civic possibilities of the datafied society and the right to the city a call to redress the uneven distribution of resources and rights in urban contexts.The book addresses these concerns through a variety of topics, including digital social services, as cities use data and automated systems to administer to citizens; education, as data-driven practices transform learning and higher education; labour, as platforms create new precarities and risks for workers; and activists and artists who seek to make creative and political interventions. They propose frameworks for understanding how data-driven technologies affect citizens' rights at the municipal scale and offer strategies for intervention by both scholars and citizens.

About the Author
Morgan Currie, Lecturer in Data and Society, University of Edinburgh. Jeremy Kno, co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh. Callum McGregor, Lecturer in Education at the Institute for Education, Community and Society, University of Edinburgh.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474492959
Author Morgan Currie
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press