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Author Bronson, Kelly, author.

Title The immaculate conception of data : agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future / Kelly Bronson.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Facebook, Google, and ... Monsanto? -- Revolutions, Disruptions, and the Future of Farming -- Appropriate, Open, and Alternative -- The Immaculate Conception of Data -- The Politics of Digital Farm Technologies.
Summary "Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and chemical companies are using these data, and these agribusinesses are a form of big tech alongside firms like Google and Facebook. The Immaculate Conception of Data peeks behind the secretive legal agreements surrounding agricultural big data to trace how it is used and with what consequences. Agribusinesses are among the oldest oligopoly corporations in the world, and their concentration gives them an advantage over other food system actors. Kelly Bronson explores what happens when big data get caught up in pre-existing arrangements of power. Her richly ethnographic account details the work of corporate scientists, farmers using the data, and activist "hackers" building open-source data platforms. Actors working in private and public contexts have divergent views on who new technology is for, how it should be developed, and what kinds of agriculture it should support. Surprisingly, despite their differences, these groups share a way of speaking about data and its value for the future. Bronson calls this the immaculate conception of data, arguing that this phenomenon is a dangerous framework for imagining big data and what it might do for society. Drawing our attention to agriculture as an important new site for big tech criticism, The Immaculate Conception of Data uniquely bridges science and technology studies, critical data studies, and food studies, bringing to light salient issues related to data justice and a sustainable food system."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Agriculture -- Data processing.
Big data.
Artificial intelligence -- Agricultural applications.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Food industry and trade.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies.
Agriculture -- Data processing
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Artificial intelligence -- Agricultural applications
Big data
Food industry and trade
Indexed Term 4.
AI.
Big Tech.
Big.
John Deere.
Monsanto.
UAV.
activist.
agribusiness.
agriculture.
agroecological.
algorithm.
artificial intelligence.
bias.
concentration.
corporate.
critical studies.
digital.
drone.
ethnography.
farm.
farmer.
food.
future.
industrial agriculture.
inequity.
open.
organic.
power.
precision analytics.
private.
productivism.
public.
science.
sensor.
smart farming.
system.
technology.
technopolitics.
tractor.
unethical.
unsustainable.
values.
Other Form: Print version: Bronson, Kelly. Immaculate conception of data. Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228011213 9780228011217 (OCoLC)1277278059
ISBN 0228012538 electronic book
9780228012542 electronic book
0228012546 electronic book
9780228012535 (electronic bk.)
9780228011217 hardcover
0228011221 hardcover
9780228011224 paperback
0228011213 paperback