Data loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies (DALOSS)

Abstract:

The objective of Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction, dispossession in digital societies (DALOSS) is to empirically demonstrate data loss as an integral dynamic within the current turn to digitization and big data, with deep-seated societal and political implications for the ongoing development of digital information ecologies. DALOSS examines data loss across three archival regimes – the internet, European bureaucracies, and social media platforms. It provides the first systematic study of data loss, offering novel and important insights for the future of European data politics.