This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly the ambivalences
between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the
ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living
conditions and the resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Secondly the
book examines ambivalences between the state and data justice. It considers data justice in
relation to state surveillance and data capitalism and reflects on the ambivalences between an
entrepreneurial state and a welfare state. Thirdly the authors discuss ambivalences of
everyday practices and collective action in which civil society groups communities and
movements try to position the interests of people against the big players in the tech industry.
The book includes eighteen chapters that provide new and varied perspectives on the role of
data and data infrastructures in our increasingly datafied societies.
