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“David Beer … outlines the rise of the metric and the role of metrics in shaping everyday life. … the book makes important reading for anyone concerned with how our daily experiences of technologies, organisations, and social institutions, are shaped, unequally, by the power of metrics.” (Dave O'Brien, New Books network, newbooksnetwork.com, August, 2017)
“Performance, value, measurement, data, indicators, statistics, ratings, rankings, metrics – we live in age where there’s an attempt to capture everything in numbers and to compare, evaluate and act on those numbers. In Metric Power David Beer carefully and insightfully unpacks the politics and effects of this mode of calculative and anticipatory governance. The book is essential reading for those interested in the politics of data and the work that metrics perform.” (Rob Kitchin, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland)
“Metric Power makes an important and timely contribution to the emerging field of critical data studies. It weaves together scholarship relevant to the topic of metric power and provides reflection on how such power operates, with what consequences, and how these consequences are lived, felt and resisted. Despite engaging with complex theory it is extremely accessible to read. In all of these ways the book represents a significant contributionto this growing area.” (Helen Kennedy, University of Sheffield, UK)
“In this age of the ascendancy of big data, the time is ripe for a new sociological analysis of metrics. David Beer does a superb job here laying out a critical social approach to why we trust and rely so much on quantification and measurement. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the hold that numbers have over us, the politics of this and what the implications are for society and social relations.” (Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra, Australia)
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Book Title: Metric Power
Authors: David Beer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55649-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55648-6Published: 10 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71768-2Published: 22 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55649-3Published: 30 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 223
Topics: Communication Studies, Media Sociology, Media Research, Knowledge - Discourse