2020
DOI: 10.1177/1329878x20947563
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Mediatisation and datafication in the global COVID-19 pandemic: on the urgency of data literacy

Abstract: In the COVID-19 pandemic, societal discourses and social interaction are subject to rapid mediatisation and digitalisation, which accelerate datafication. This indicates urgency for increasing data literacy: individual abilities in understanding and critically assessing datafication and its social implications. Immediate challenges concern misconceptions about the crisis, data misuses, widening (social) divides and (new) data biases. Citizens need to be on guard in respect to the crisis’ impact on the next sta… Show more

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“…In a pandemic that has amplified inequalities, a focus on how people engage with data toward learning in relation to COVID-19 is urgent-especially given the role of government and corporate mediation in information sharing (Nguyen, 2020). Engaging in a datafied society involves a kind of criticality around data practices that explicitly engage with these political and ethical issues.…”
Section: Bridging Critical Data Practices With Data Justicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a pandemic that has amplified inequalities, a focus on how people engage with data toward learning in relation to COVID-19 is urgent-especially given the role of government and corporate mediation in information sharing (Nguyen, 2020). Engaging in a datafied society involves a kind of criticality around data practices that explicitly engage with these political and ethical issues.…”
Section: Bridging Critical Data Practices With Data Justicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Kovid-19 temas takip uygulamalarına güvenmemek, şayet Nguyen'in makalesinde bahsettiği veri okuryazarlığına sahipsek, yerinde olacaktır (2020). Zira Nguyen, toplumun verileştirmeyi kritik edebilecek, fayda ve zararlarını fark edip önlem alabilecek bir oranda veri okuryazarlığına acil bir şekilde sahip olması gerektiğinden bahseder (Nguyen, 2020). Fakat bireylerin birçok özel şirketin (Althusser'in İdeoloji ve Devletin İdeolojik Aygıtları kitabında bahsedilen consent kavramı ile) onların kendi rızasıyla topladığı verilerinin günümüze kadar farkında olmamış ve önlem almamış olduğu düşünüldüğünde, Kovid-19 takip uygulamalarının topluma sunduğu mahremiyet vs. toplum sağlığı gibi kısıtlı bir tercihte gizliliği tercih etmesinin yersiz olacağı tartışılabilir.…”
Section: Verileştirme Ve Mahremiyet: Veri Kimin Elinde?unclassified
“…Zira bireylerin dijital alanda mahremiyetlerini korumak için hassasiyetleri artmasaydı acaba bu şirketler filyasyon uygulamasını tasarlarken bireyin mahremiyetine dikkat ederler miydi? Bu soru, muhatabını Nguyen'in Kovid-19 salgını döneminde hızla artan verileşmeye karşı-lık, veri okuryazarlığının acilen yaygınlaştırılması gerektiğini ifade ettiği yazısına yönlendirmektedir (Nguyen, 2020).…”
Section: Sonuçunclassified
“…This is because, according to the World Health Organization, coronavirus pandemic and the global public health responses have been "accompanied by an infodemic, which is an over-abundance of information -some accurate and some not" (WHO, 2020: 13). The situation with social media and information flows, the raise of so called fake-news (Krasni, 2020;Lazer et al, 2020) and the florescence of all kinds of conspiracy theories, indicate for an urgency in increasing data literacy, and the raise of "individual abilities in understanding and critically assessing datafixation and its social implications" (Nguyen, 2020). In the context of pandemic, misinformation flow makes hard for people to be informed adequately, and prevents them from taking adequate measures as well.…”
Section: Trust and Media Usementioning
confidence: 99%