Justifying the protest camp: How Occupy movements’ ‘intimate protest’ challenged ideas about legitimate manifestation

Dekker, Mischa; Duyvendak, Jan Willem

doi:10.1080/23254823.2020.1777441

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“…In SMS, means and ends are increasingly understood as a continuum and as affecting each other (Dekker and Duyvendak, 2013; Jasper, 2011). The idea of a purely instrumental movement selecting the most appropriate tactics in order to reach its exogenous goals is often an untenable simplification.…”

Section: A New Typology Of Data Activism: Towards a Political Data Subjectmentioning

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From data politics to the contentious politics of data

Beraldo

Milan

2019

Big Data & Society

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This article approaches the paradigm shift of datafication from the perspective of civil society. Looking at how individuals and groups engage with datafication, it complements the notion of "data politics" by exploring what we call the "contentious politics of data". By contentious politics of data we indicate the bottom-up, transformative initiatives interfering with and/or hijacking dominant processes of datafication, contesting existing power relations or reappropriating data practices and infrastructure for purposes distinct from the intended. Said contentious politics of data is articulated in an array of practices of data activism taking a critical stance towards datafication. In data activism, data as mediators take a central role, both as part of an action repertoire or as objects of struggle in their own right. Leveraging social movement studies and science and technology studies, this theoretical essay argues that data activism can be mapped along two analytical dimensions: "data as stakes" (as issues and/or objects of political struggle in their own right) vs. "data as repertoires" (or modular tools for political struggle), and "individual practice vs. collective action". Mapping action repertoires and tactics along these axes allows us to chart the potential emergence of a political (contentious) data subject at the intersection of these two dimensions. This furthers our understanding of people's engagement with data in relation to other forms of activism and existing work in social movement studies. It also helps us interpreting potential trajectories of contemporary social movements, as they increasingly interface with data, devices and platforms.

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Section: A New Typology Of Data Activism: Towards a Political Data Subjectmentioning

confidence: 99%