Mobilizing Media Studies in an Age of Datafication

Dencik, Lina

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“…Gumbus and Grodzinsky 18 revealed that data capital can result in discrimination and injustice. Dencik 24 pointed out that the application of the concept of data capital in a datadriven system can introduce "inequalities, discriminate or exclude certain groups, or can dehumanise interaction and decision making around contentious and sensitive issues". Prainsack 25 stated that the bad consequences of nudging based on data could outweigh the benefits.…”

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Data Capital A Systematic Literature Review

Ramadhan

2022

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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Data capital is one of the newly emerging concepts in information technology. It emerged in early 2015, and currently, we have an opportunity to explore it in more detail. Data capital is a way to treat data as an asset that is used to increase revenue, gain profit or generate new income. There has never been a proper review of data capital. Therefore, this study aims to conduct a systematic literature review of academic articles on data capital. We use the Kitchenham method and combine it with the narrative synthesis as prescribed by Cochrane. The obtained results show that there is still very limited academic research related to the concept of data capital. The reviewed articles focus on five issues, i.e., ethical, legal, infrastructure, data capital application, and data capital conceptualisation. This study is the first attempt to conduct a detailed systematic literature review in the data capital context. It provides a broad insight into data capital. It improves our understanding of how data capital is currently developing, why it is important, and the impact of data capital incorporation. Any issues that have been researched in the data capital context are also revealed in this study including the type of research performed, approach used, and method chosen. These insights will encourage other researchers to delve into data capital research.

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Data Capital A Systematic Literature Review

Ramadhan

2022

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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“…However, the exponential development of digital technologies, and with it the growth in surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2019) and the datafication of social life (Dencik, 2020), now also forms part of this narrative, where technocracy dominates (Sylvia & Andrejevic, 2016) and surveillance is increasingly automated, accompanied by the displacement of human judgment and social relations (Andrejevic, 2019, 2020). Consequently, as technocratic fixers, experts find themselves caught up in new and innovative modes of governmentality in which centralized forms of bureaucratic management and organizational control are gradually displaced by more technically advanced, organizationally pervasive, and socially ubiquitous surveillance regimes (Kellogg et al, 2020; Visser et al, 2018).…”

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Expert Authority in Crisis: Making Authority Real Through Struggle

Reed

2022

Organization Theory

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There is an emerging consensus both within the social scientific research community and more widely in the public domain that expert authority is “in trouble.” However, there is much greater disagreement over the scope and scale of this trouble and what it might mean for the nature, status, and significance of expert authority in the 21st century. This paper identifies and assesses three different narratives concerning the crisis in expert authority. These constitute the delegitimation narrative, the demystification narrative, and the decomposition narrative. They can be seen as responses to the breakdown in the implicit social contract between experts, publics, and states under the extreme and continuous pressures exerted on expert authority by disjunctive change. We evaluate these various interpretations of the crisis in expert authority, particularly in terms of what they suggest about the future potency and stability of the concept of expert authority. In this process of evaluation, we also highlight the emergence of reflexive expert authority and its implications for organizational governance as potential outcomes of this ongoing crisis in the legitimacy and status of expert workers. Consequently, the paper provides a general analytical framework for understanding the emergent narratives around expert authority in democracies and highlights how all three narratives point to serious problems in sustaining this authority in the face of destabilizing change. Furthermore, in developing the notion of reflexive expert authority, we contend that theorization of expert authority needs to privilege the deeper dynamics of trust and control at the core of its analytical focus within organization theory.

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“…This situation also demands innovative methodological approaches which seek to integrate different perspectives in digital ( Dencik, 2020 ). Big data, enabling new approaches to data, represent an alternative ( Grimm et al, 2017 , January; Woo et al, 2020 ) to traditional approaches that analyse quantitative questionnaires obtained in field studies or experimental work.…”

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Digital Narratives During the Pandemic: TV Series, Social Media, and Conversations on the Internet

2021

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The situation of lockdown experienced during the months from March to June 2020 changed the daily lives of people in Spain and their leisure circumstances. This study analyses the narrative representations that people construct when they watched streaming TV series, during the covid-19 pandemic. To access these representations, the Spanish texts that appear on the Internet are analysed, including social networks and other social media. The paper adopts quantitative approaches that use big data analysis complemented with other qualitative approaches and inspired by content and discourse analysis. Findings show that these narrative representations constructed through conversations are on three levels in which context is revealed: first, institutional and community; second, online or offline interpersonal relationships which mention people as facts or as aspirations of their daily lives; and third, personal lives in the reconstruction of the series, projected on the plot reconstruction and the identity of the actors.

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Mobilizing Media Studies in an Age of Datafication

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Data Capital A Systematic Literature Review

Data Capital A Systematic Literature Review

Expert Authority in Crisis: Making Authority Real Through Struggle

Digital Narratives During the Pandemic: TV Series, Social Media, and Conversations on the Internet

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