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Thespacesof/for（humanandnon-human）lifeareinescapablyinfusedandboundupwiththedigital.Theconceptof‘datacolonialism’hasemergedagainstthisgeneralbackdrop,connectingfruitfullywithresearchon‘digitalgeographies’andabroader‘criticaldatastudies’literature.‘Curation’isfrequentlyinvokedinthesecontributions,althoughtheexperiencestakingshapewhendigitalsubjectscuratedigitalgeographiesinaneraofdatacolonialismhavenotbeengivensufficientattention.Inresponse,thispaperusesanautoethnographyofeverydaydigitalpracticestoprobethepossibilitiesandconstraintsinplaywhendigitalsubjectscuratedigitalgeographies.Theanalysisreviewshow‘iterativeinterplays’and‘constellationsofcontingencies’aregivenvitalitywhendigitalgeographiesof‘flow’and‘territory’arepursued.Thepaperconcludeswithobservationsandprovocationsforfutureresearchonwhatwemightrefertoas‘datacuration.’

Keywords：

Datacolonialism，Digitalgeographies，Criticaldatastudies，Curation，Contingencies，Autoethnography

Introduction

Thespacesof/for（humanandnon-human）lifeareinescapablyinfusedandboundupwiththedigital:

withdata,linesofcode,andthemyriaddataflowsandtransactionsthatworkbehind-the-scenestopromptandconceivablymonetizebehaviourinstarkways.Datapervadeeverything,withsubjectivitiesandlifechancesexposedtoandpossiblyalteredbynewformsof‘algorithmicgovernance’（ZookandBlankenship,2018）.Novelarchitecturesofautomated（andalgorithmic）decision-makingnowsitalongsidecomplexhuman-softwareinterfaces,therebygivingrisetoa‘planetarycognitiveecology’（Hayles,2017）characterisedbyhumansocieties‘enmeshedincognitiveassemblages’（p.126;

myemphasis）,proliferatingdigitalassistants–Alexa,Cortana,Siri,orthenewcallcentre‘bots’withinRobotistan（Peck,2017）–anddiversedisruptiveprojectsrolledoutbyfirmsandgovernments.

Againstthisgeneralbackdrop,theconceptof‘datacolonialism’bringsintosharpreliefthegainsmadebytechnologyfirmswhocolonize,aggregate,andcapitalizeupondata（Thatcheretal.,2016）.Thedataatissue–collectedbyfirmsinexpanding‘reservesofdata’（Cheney-Lippold,2017）andconnectedtogethertoforma‘globalassemblageofdataflow’（Pickren,2016;

also 

Graham,2014）–areproducedbypopulationswhentheyclickorswipeindigitaldevicesandservices;

whentheyprovideinformationaboutactions,tastes,ideas;

andultimatelybecausethehumanbodyisnow‘akintoasignallingbeacon,continuouslyleakingdetailsthatattesttoitscircumstances,itsmood,itsmotives,itsdoingsanditswhereabouts’（Smith,2016,p.118）.Populationsmightberelativelypassiveandpossiblyevenaddictedtotheinteractionsplayingoutwithinthesedevices（e.g. 

Kulwin,2018）.Theyarevulnerabletonewformsofpoliticalmanipulation（e.g.see 

Howardetal.,2018, 

BradshawandHoward,2018）.Buttheyarecertainlysubjectedtoinvasiveformsofsurveillancewhentheyaretrackedandanalysedbytechnologyfirmsandgovernmentsalike（Zuboff,2015, 

Zuboff,2019）.Thus,whatmakesthisprocessofdatacapture‘colonial’isnotsomuchthatitinvolvesalienpowersorforcessubjugatingandcontrollingindigenouspopulations,ashasbeeneffectivelychartedbyscholarswithreferencetothelast500 yearsofEuropeancolonialactivities（e.g.see 

Galeano,1973, 

Said,1978, 

Mamdani,1996）;

rather,thesenseof‘colonial’inplayherereferstothewaydigitalsubjectsare‘dispossessedandalienatedfromtheverydatatheygenerate’（998）andbecauseaccumulationstrategiesinthisprocessseekto‘quantify,alienate,andextractconceptionsofself’（1000） 

from 

thosedata（onthesimilarterm‘digitalenclosure,’seealso 

Andrejevic,2009）.Thisis,therefore,amoregeneralsenseofthe‘colonial,’oneinwhichtheraceorethnicityofsubjugator/subjugateddoesnotnecessarily 

directly 

matter.

Researchon‘digitalgeographies’（e.g.see 

Ashetal.,2018a, 

FordandGraham,2016, 

Rose,2017, 

Zook,2017, 

ZebrackiandLuger,2018）respondstothese（andother）developmentsbypointingoutthatthe‘digitalreshapesmanygeographies,mediatestheproductionofgeographicknowledge,reconfiguresresearchrelationships,anditselfhasmanygeographies[hence]an 

engagement 

withthedigitaldevelopsourcollectiveunderstandingsofcitiesanddevelopment,aswellashealth,politics,economy,society,culture,andtheenvironment,amongothers’（Ashetal.,2019,p.5;

myemphasis）.Digitalgeographiesresearch,whichiscloselyassociatedwiththe‘quicklyevolving’（Burnsetal.,2018,p.126）fieldof‘criticaldatastudies’（CDS）（e.g.see 

DaltonandThatcher,2014, 

Daltonetal.,2016, 

IliadisandRusso,2016, 

Burnsetal.,2018, 

Thatcher,2017, 

Ettlinger,2018）,invitesgeographerstodevelopnewinsightsaboutthespatialityofdigitallife.1

Onesuchinvitationistheideathatdigitallifeinvolvesvariouspracticesof‘curation.’Widelyinvokedindiversecontributions,theconceptariseswhen‘curatedsocialmediaoutputisresoldandmonetizedasmarketingavenues’bytechnologyfirms（Zook,2017,p.5）;

whentechnologicaldevelopmentssuchasInformaCamexpress‘anemergingcultureofdatacollectioninwhichactorsonthegroundexercisetheiragencybyconstructingandcuratingdata…’（vanderVelden,2015,p.8;

seealso 

Ettlinger,2018）;

whendigitalactorsare‘curatingstories’viauseofselfiesthat‘challengedominantnarrativesaboutgender-basedviolence’（Farhadi,2018,p.141;

regardingcurationpracticesonPinterest,seealso 

Almjeld,2015）;

andwhen‘thecurationofanonlinebrandedpersona’becomesgermanetothestrategiesoffreelanceworkers（Gandini,2016,p.124）.Emphasizingcurationconnectswithwiderdiscussionsof‘digitalcuration’asarelativelynewpracticeindiversearenas,suchasmuseums,archives,orinnumerousworkplaceswheredigitalartefactsorcontentdemandcareandattention（Beagrie,2008, 

Higgins,2011）.Relatedtothesediscussions,moreover,thereisasenseinwhich‘theexplosionofonlinecontentandtheadventofsocialnetworkingsitesdesignedtofacilitatesharing,have,inessence,turnedallofusintocontentcurators’（WeisgerberandButler,2016,p.1342;

Bhargava,2009）.Finally,curationishighlightedasakeyelementinthegrowthofflagshipdigitalfirms,suchasNetflix.Its‘data-drivenprogramming’（Wu,2015）hasbeencentraltoattractingandretainingpaidsubscribers（Ferná

ndez-Manzanoetal.,2016）,asexemplifiedbyitscommerciallysuccessfuloriginalseries 

HouseofCards,whichcameaboutafteralgorithmswereusedtoidentifyanopportunityforapoliticalthrillerofthattype（HallinanandStriphas2016）.2

Intheinterestofpursuing‘an 

withthedigital’（Ashetal.,2019,p.5;

myemphasis）,especiallytheconceptofdatacolonialism,myfocusinthispaperisondevelopinghowweunderstandcuration.Specifically,Iinquireintothenotionthatdigitalsubjectscuratedigitalgeographies,whichIdefineastheactiveandre-configurablearrangementsofdigitaldevicesandservicesenrolledin,andtherebyconstitutiveof,thespacesofeverydaylife.Iask:

Whathappensandwhatemergeswhensubjectscuratedigitalgeographies?

Whatcomestolightandwhatpossibilitiesandconstraintsmatterwhentheyproducedataandnavigateornegotiatedatacolonialism?

Whatexperiencestakeshape,andwhateffectsspilloutward,whenactorsuse,tweak,andre-arrangedevicesandservices?

Ibeginbyarguingthatcuratingdigitalgeographiesisaneverydaypracticeandconstituentcomponentofdigitallife,whichdeservesparticularattentionbecauseitchallengeshowgeographersshouldconceptualizespace.Ithengroundthisargumentbyintroducing,examining,anddiscussingmaterialsdrawnfromanautoethnographyofcuratingdigitalgeographies,focusinginparticularonthenuancesofcuratingwhatIrefertoas 

digitalgeographiesofflowandterritory.Finally,Ipresentsomeconclusionsandreflectionsonthebroadersignificanceofcurationforhowweconceptualisedigitalgeographiesinaneraofdatacolonialism.

Curatingdigitalgeographies

‘Curation’isoftenviewedinrelationtopracticesinartgalleriesormuseumswherecuratorsconductanalysisandconsiderhowartefactsmightbepresented,positioned,andtranslatedindiversewaysandwithawiderangeofobjectives（Villi,2012;

citing 

JoyandSherry,2003）.Inthissortofdefinition,amuseumcurator‘scourstheartscene,selectsthefinestworks,arrangesthepiecesaroundaunifiedtheme,providesaframetounderstandtheartists’messages,andthenengagesthepublicinaconversationaroundthecollection’（WeisgerberandButler,2016）.Thecuratorintervenesintheworld.Thecuratorproducesspace.Inasimilarguise,itmakessensetoconceptualizedigitalsubjectsasthecuratorsoftheirdigitalgeographiesbecausesomuchofeverydaylifeinvolvespresenting,positioning,andtranslatingdigitalcontentintheformofdata,onesandzeroes,andnewlinesofcode.Whetherenactedviadiverseformsof‘digitalskill’（RichardsonandBissell,2017）orviafirm-basedanalysesofcustomerbehaviouronwebsites（e.g.see 

Ashetal.,2018b）,digitalsubjectscuratedigitalgeographieswhenthey‘generate[the]datapointsorganized,sorted,andanalysedbyalgorithms’（Thatcher,2016,p.2）.Liketheartcurator,therefore,thedigitalsubjectproducesspace,althoughintandemwithdigitaltechnologiesandinrelationtodatacolonialism.Theyare,forexample,curatingwhattheysee,makingdecisionsabouthowtheywillnavigatetheweb,orop