Proactive Data Activism

Gutiérrez, Miren

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78319-2_3

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“…As Tsing writes, the ‘contribution of each of these works is stunning; yet placed in conversation they seem to block each other’ (Tsing 2005 : 4), for instance, when data activism is reduced to an insufficient, partial and temporary tactic (Couldry and Mejias 2019 : 194f; for an alternative view, see Benjamin 2019 ; Dencik et al 2019 ; D’Ignazio and Klein 2020 ; Gutiérrez 2018 ). By operating at the intersection of the two approaches, Tsing focuses on ‘zones of awkward engagement’ (Tsing 2005 : xi), which I read here as spaces in which the noise becomes discernible.…”

Section: Postdigital Noisementioning

confidence: 99%

Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity: Implications for Research on Education and Datafication

Macgilchrist

2021

Postdigit Sci Educ

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Section: Postdigital Noisementioning

confidence: 99%

Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity: Implications for Research on Education and Datafication

Macgilchrist

2021

Postdigit Sci Educ

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“…These practices, with which individuals and organizations act to face surveillance, are analysed in media activism and social movements studies, where these actions are known as data activism (e.g. Gutierrez, 2018; Milan, 2017; Milan and Gutierrez, 2015; Milan and van der Velden, 2016).…”

Section: Datafication and Data Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflecting and acting on datafication – CryptoParties as an example of re-active data activism

Kannengießer

2019

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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CryptoParties are events in which people meet to pass on their knowledge or to learn about encrypting online communication and digital media technologies or safe Internet browsing. While some people offer help in realizing these practices, others attend with their laptops, tablets and smartphones to learn how to encrypt. CryptoParties are organized by different people in different locations. The article presents results of an exploratory ethnographic study, in which public CryptoParties in Germany were analysed. The study shows that people participating in Crypto-Parties reflect on and criticize current processes of datafication. Moreover, they aim at shaping datafication by encrypting their online communication and digital media technologies. Therefore, CryptoParties are discussed as examples of re-active data activism in this article. Applying a critical perspective hierarchies and inequalities at these events are revealed.

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“…In recent years, the interlinked processes of digitalisation and datafication have garnered growing attention within various sub-disciplines of international relations. Areas of research that have paid particular attention to digital transformation include studies focusing on the rise of Big Tech and surveillance capitalism, post-human security studies, disaster management, post-humanitarianism and digital activism (Madsen et al 2016;Zuboff 2019;Cudworth and Hobden 2017;Schwartz 2017;Chandler 2019;Duffield 2018;Gutiérrez 2018). There is a polemical tone to much of this emerging literature, as reflected in the claim that society is undergoing a paradigmatic shift from modernism to a "coming age of post-humanism" (Chandler 2015a), or with Duffield's (2018, 58) declaration that we are experiencing the "consolidation of the cybernetic episteme and the coming post-social world".…”

Section: Digitalisation Datafication and Epistemic Transformationmentioning

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Epistemic Transformation at the Margins: Resistance to Digitalisation and Datafication within Global Human Rights Advocacy

Markland

2021

Global Society

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A post-human "transformation thesis" has emerged which posits that global politics is being radically altered by digital technologies and datafication. There is a polemical tendency to generalise about macro-level revolutions in both the techniques of governance and knowledge production across different political spheres, ranging from international security to development, humanitarianism and human rights. By instead applying a meso-level lens on global politics, this article cautions against excessive generalisations about epistemic transformations. It does so by emphasising the ways in which technological changes are mediated through field-specific struggles. This point is illustrated by demonstrating the absence of a radical data revolution within the field of global human rights advocacy. Through a sociological analysis of leading human rights NGOs and their epistemic cultures, it shows how that the field's humanistic sub-culture limits the adoption of novel digital-and data-centric practices.

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Proactive Data Activism

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity: Implications for Research on Education and Datafication

Theories of Postdigital Heterogeneity: Implications for Research on Education and Datafication

Reflecting and acting on datafication – CryptoParties as an example of re-active data activism

Epistemic Transformation at the Margins: Resistance to Digitalisation and Datafication within Global Human Rights Advocacy

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