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Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis ASCA

COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society

Edited by Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero | Many social groups and geographical areas were virtually absent from the narration of the COVID-19 emergency. They were given a voice in a blog coorganized and co-edited by Stefania Milan, Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at ASCA. The blog invites authors to contribute research informed analyses that reflect on one or more aspects of the datafied society at the time of this pandemic from an explicitly human-centred perspective. This publication came out of the blog.

In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Featuring stories of invisibility, injustice, hope and resistance, this book gives voice to communities at the margins in the Global South and beyond. The multilingual, polycentric and pluriversal narration invites the reader to enact and experience “Big Data from the South(s)” as a decolonial lens to read the pandemic.

Authors: Claudio Agosti, Thomas Aureliani, Anat Ben-David, Anna Berti Suman, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Nic Bidwell, Tiziano Bonini, Jelke Bosma, Olga Bronnikova, Diego Cerna Aragón, Herkulaas MVE Combrink, Donna Cormack, Arianna Cortesi, Angela Daly, Soumyo Das, Françoise Daucé, Philip Di Salvo, Alexandra Elliott, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marta Espuny Contreras, Maria Faust, Nicolas Foster, Peter Füssy, Larissa Galdino de Magalhães Santos, Alex Gekker, Ana Maria R. Gomes, Simone Gomes, Ana Guerra, Arne Hintz, Hossein Kermani, Shyam Krishna, Tahu Kukutai, Justin Lau, Yoren Lausberg, Joan López, Sol Luca de Tena, Claudia Magnani, Vukosi Marivate, José Otávio A. L. Martins, Silvia Masiero, Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Kinoko Merini, Stefania Milan, Eva Mos, Oarabile Mudongo, Francesca Musiani, Elaine Nsoesie, Adriaan Odendaal, Irene Ortiz, Bella Ostromooukhova, Erinne Paisley, Annalisa Pelizza, Marie-Cathering Petersmann, Julián Cordoba Pivotto, Irene Poetranto, Preeti Raghunath, Massimo Ragnedda, Ricardo H. D. Rohm, Roberto Romero, Maria Laura Ruiu, Javier Sánchez Monedero, Maria Soledad Segura, Paula C.P. Silva, Raquel Tarullo, Niels ten Oever, Emiliano Treré, Niels van Doorn, Teresa Villaseñor, Silvio Waisbord, Anna Zaytseva, Karla Zavala Barreda, Iran Zhao, Nicolo Zingales

Editors: Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero
Cover design: Katja van Stiphout
Design and E-Pub development: Tommaso Campagna, Evelien van Nieuwenhoven
ISBN PaperBack: 978-94-92302-72-4
ISBN E-Pub: 978-9492302-73-1

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No.639379-DATACTIVE; (​https://data-activism.net)