ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how the digital – (big) data and algorithms – encourages the programming of resilience, and how subjects act out security according to such programs. It discusses the way in which the networked character of the Internet also gives room to self-determined forms of acting-out security, for example, through the use of social media. Digital information has become a key asset for emergency management and resilience practice. Understanding the digital through its properties and affordances of transferability, traceability, storability and computability does not lead to a critique of the digital altogether, neither does it encourage the adoption of the attitude that the digital is a technology that merely needs better design to avoid causing unintended side effects. The chapter outlines the properties of digital information and the activities affords in order to establish a theoretical base, which makes it possible to investigate how the increased circulation of digital information influences resilience practices and epistemologies.
