Veronica Barassi Livres

An examination of the datafication of family life--in particular, the construction of our children into data subjects. Our families are being turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.

The book explores the diverse perspectives of activists from three distinct political groups, focusing on their interpretations and experiences of web technologies as instruments for political critique. Through comparative ethnographic research, it delves into how these activists envision the role of digital tools in shaping political discourse and mobilization, highlighting the varied ways technology influences their activism.