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An expansive vision for data equality that goes beyond algorithmic fairness.

When we gave algorithms power over our world, we hoped that the apparent neutrality of machine thinking would create a more egalitarian age. Yet we are more divided than ever, staring down threats to democracy itself. In Data Equals, Colin Koopman argues that data technologies fail us so often because we built them around a deficient notion of equality.

It is not enough, Koopman explains, that algorithms engage everyone's data with the same measuring stick. The data themselves are all too often structured in ways that obscure and exacerbate stratifying distinctions. Koopman contends that we must also work to ensure that those people subject to computational assessment enter data systems on equal terms. Part philosophical argument, part practical guide (replete with case studies from education technology), Data Equals offers novel methods for realizing democratic equality in a digital age.

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  • Title Data Equals: Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy
  • Author Colin Koopman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2025-09-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226842257 / 0226842258
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 7.01 x 0.79 in (22.81 x 17.81 x 2.01 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Equality - United States, Democracy - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2025001942
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

About the author

Colin Koopman is professor of philosophy and director of new media and culture at the University of Oregon. His books include How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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