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100	1		_aRodrigues, Elizabeth _c(Librarian), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCollecting Lives : _bCritical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures / _cElizabeth Rodrigues.
264		1	_aAnn Arbor : _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c2022.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2022
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aDigital culture books
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520	3		_aOn a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms draw from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century US to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century US in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data's revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aBiography _xResearch _xMethodology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00832166
650		7	_aBiography _xData processing. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01352013
650		7	_aAmerican literature _xResearch _xMethodology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00807238
650		6	_aLitterature americaine _y20e siecle _xRecherche _xMethodologie.
650		0	_aModernism (Literature) _zUnited States _y20th century _xAesthetics.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xResearch _xMethodology.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xData processing.
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651		0	_aUnited States _xBiography _y20th century _xResearch _xMethodology.
651		0	_aUnited States _xBiography _y20th century _xData processing.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan), _epublisher.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/101124/
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