Introduction to the Data Power Special Issue: tactics, access and shaping

Gerrard, Ysabel; Bates, Jo

doi:10.1108/oir-10-2019-396

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“…De Certeau's theory of practice has been taken up in many digital media studies based in the Global North, which aims to investigate how people use various technologies (Gerrard and Bates, 2019). Farman (2014), for example, conducting research in North America, exercises the concept of tactics in exploring people's "creative misuse" of GPS technologies and gaming apps as forms of resistance to surveillance and data harvesting.…”

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“…Often such research does not adequately consider the situated contexts, affective intensities and relational connections that are vital elements of people's responses to their personal data privacy. The importance of innovative and creative theoretical and methodological approaches which centre such elements have therefore been emphasised in recent times (Kennedy and Hill, 2018;Gerrard and Bates, 2019;Markham, 2019;Lupton and Watson, 2020).…”

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“…Research on how people understand and respond to datafication and dataveillance systems often centers practices as productive modes of engagement and resistance within technological and data sense-making practices. Many scholars draw on de Certeau's influential work on tactics to do this (Gerrard and Bates, 2019). While de Certeau's book The Practice of Everyday Life (1984) was published in a predigital age, his discussions on how people understand the products of popular culture and what they do with these artefacts are relevant to digital media and digital data, which can also be understood as cultural artefacts.…”

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Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study

Watson

Lupton

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on the findings from the Digital Privacy Story Completion Project, which investigated Australian participants' understandings of and responses to digital privacy scenarios using a novel method and theoretical approach.Design/methodology/approachThe story completion method was brought together with De Certeau's concept of tactics and more-than-human theoretical perspectives. Participants were presented with four story stems on an online platform. Each story stem introduced a fictional character confronted with a digital privacy dilemma. Participants were asked to complete the stories by typing in open text boxes, responding to the prompts “How does the character feel? What does she/he do? What happens next?”. A total of 29 participants completed the stories, resulting in a corpus of 116 narratives for a theory-driven thematic analysis.FindingsThe stories vividly demonstrate the ways in which tactics are entangled with relational connections and affective intensities. They highlight the micropolitical dimensions of human–nonhuman affordances when people are responding to third-party use of their personal information. The stories identified the tactics used and boundaries that are drawn in people's sense-making concerning how they define appropriate and inappropriate use of their data.Originality/valueThis paper demonstrates the value and insights of creatively attending to personal data privacy issues in ways that decentre the autonomous tactical and agential individual and instead consider the more-than-human relationality of privacy.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-05-2020-0174

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study

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Lupton

2020

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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power—An Introduction

Hepp

Jarke

Kramp

2022

Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research

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Data power is a highly ambivalent phenomenon and it is precisely these ambivalences that open up important perspectives for the burgeoning field of critical data studies: First, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities. These challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure and instead make visible the local working and living conditions, and resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Second is the ambivalences between the state and data justice. These consider data justice in relation to state surveillance and data capitalism and reflect the ambivalences between an “entrepreneurial state” and a “welfare state”. Third is the ambivalences of everyday practices and collective action, in which civil society groups, communities, and movements try to position the interests of people against the “big players” in the tech industry. With this introduction, we want to make the argument that seeing data power and its irreducible ambivalences in a pointed way will provide an orientation to the chapters of this book. To this end, we first give a brief outline of the development of critical data studies. In part, we also want to situate the data power conferences, the most recent of which this volume is based on. This will then serve as a basis for taking a closer look at three facets of the ambivalence of data power.

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Introduction to the Data Power Special Issue: tactics, access and shaping

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Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study

Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study

New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power—An Introduction

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