Data Equals
Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy
$64.11
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2025
Summary
An expansive vision for data equality that goes beyond algorithmic fairness.
When we gave algorithms power over our world, we hoped that the apparent neutrality of machine thinking would create a more egalitarian age. Yet we are more divided than ever, staring down threats to democracy itself. In Data Equals, Colin Koopman argues that data technologies fail us so often because we built them around a deficient notion of equality.
It is not enough, Koop…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226842257 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0226842258 |
| Author: | Colin Koopman |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Data Equals is an urgent, timely, and ambitious call to reconstruct the modern data order, which now suffocates democracies with increasingly powerful technologies of separation that draw our lives further and further apart and leave us unable to encounter one another as equals. With clarity and purpose, Koopman revitalizes the philosophical tradition of pragmatism to remind us of the possibilities for egalitarian politics and how data might finally serve them.” – Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh
“Data Equals is a compelling, original, and important contribution to the literature on data studies, pragmatism, political philosophy, and philosophy of technology. It brings together perspectives that are rarely examined in concert, providing a refreshing take on data policy and the ethics of AI that challenges the idealized approach that characterizes much of the contemporary literature. Data Equals is a must-read for anyone interested in issues concerning equality and technology.” – Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University
Colin Koopman
Colin Koopman is professor of philosophy and director of new media and culture at the University of Oregon. His books include How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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