What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure
our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media distributed digital
infrastructures and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for
data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted
in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed and interrelated
in data-saturated environments? The volume collects theoretical empirical and
historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the
current shift from media to data practices.
