New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies : : The Ambivalences of Data Power.

• Superior document: Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research Series
• Author: Hepp, Andreas.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jarke, Juliane.; Kramp, Leif.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Transforming Communications - Studies in Cross-Media Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 pages)

Table of Contents

New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Images -- Notes on Contributors -- New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power-An Introduction -- Introduction -- Critical Data Studies as a Field: From Big Data to the Complexity of Digital Data and Data Infrastructures -- Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power -- References -- Part I: Global Infrastructures and Local Invisibilities -- Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics -- Introduction -- AI Superpower? -- Complex Reality Through Historical and Conflictive Lenses -- Chinese Data Power and Counter-power -- Conclusion -- References -- Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements' Organizational Elites -- Introduction -- State of Research: The QS and Maker Movements' Organisational Elites -- Methodological Approach: Contextualised Twitter Network Analysis -- QS Movement: A Network of Opinion Leaders -- The Transnational Network -- The National Context -- Maker: A Network of Heterogeneous Organisations -- The Transnational Network -- The National Context -- Conclusion -- References -- The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data Studies on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm -- Introduction -- An Overview of Technical Education, Higher Education, and Unemployability in India -- Methodology and Field Sites -- The Ameerpet IT Skill Hub: There Is a Skill Just Around the Corner -- The Coaching Micro Hubs of Kumbakonam -- Computer Coaching Centres -- Beyond Developing IT Skills to Employment -- Conclusion -- References -- Fighting the "System": A Pilot Project on the Opacity of Algorithms in Political Communication -- Introduction -- Political Communication in the Age of Algorithms.

Research Objectives and Methodology -- Establishing and Feeding Control Accounts -- Creating Profiles and Feeding the Control Accounts -- Preliminary Findings -- Next Steps -- Conclusion -- References -- Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance -- Introduction -- Colonialism and the Racialised Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples -- Surveilling and Managing Indigenous Deviance and Threat -- Colonial Surveillance in an Era of Big Data in Aotearoa NZ -- Māori Data Sovereignty: Resistance and Self-determination -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: State and Data Justice -- The Datafied Welfare State: A Perspective from the UK -- Introduction -- Matrix of Social Power and the Foundations of the British Welfare State -- The Datafication of Welfare in the UK -- Datafication as Responsibilisation -- Datafication as Rentierism -- Conclusion -- References -- The Value Dynamics of Data Capitalism: Cultural Production and Consumption in a Datafied World -- Introduction -- Value and Values -- Dynamics of Data Capitalism -- Relations Between Value Forms -- Conclusions -- References -- Mapping Data Justice as a Multidimensional Concept Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives -- Introduction -- "What's in a Name?"-Data Justice as a Concept in Feminist and Legal Scholarship -- Feminist Accounts of Data Justice -- Legal Framework: Justice, Data, and the Challenges of Digitalisation -- Data Protection Law -- The Justice Aspects of Non-personal Data -- Expanding Data Justice Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives -- Feminist Avenues Towards Rethinking Data Justice -- Feminist Suggestions for IT-Design Towards Data Justice -- Legal Interventions for Data Justice in the Current Legal Framework -- Towards Operationalising Data Justice -- Potentials and Limitations of Integrating Feminist and Legal Perspectives for Data Justice in IT-Design.

References -- Reconfiguring Education Through Data: How Data Practices Reconfigure Teacher Professionalism and Curriculum -- Introduction -- Data Practices Reconfiguring Education -- Following the Social Life of Data in an English Secondary School -- Prioritising Pupils: The Data Drop Machinery -- Reconfiguring Access to and Delivery of the Curriculum -- An Algorithmic Triage Device Determining Curricular Access -- Disaggregating the Curriculum to Calculate 'Progress' Data -- Averaging 'Progress' Scores -- Reconfiguring the Possibilities of Qualification, Socialisation and Subjectification -- Reconfiguring Teachers' Educational Knowledge and Judgements -- Excluding Professional Judgement -- Becoming a Data-orientated Teacher and School -- Standardising Judgement and Practice -- Conclusion: What Is Made to Matter and What Is Excluded from Mattering? -- References -- Public Values and Technological Change: Mapping how Municipalities Grapple with Data Ethics -- Introduction -- Method: Participatory Observation with DEDA -- Analysis: Moore's Triangle Made Tangible -- Operational Capacities -- Authorising Environment -- Public Value Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Welfare Data Society? Critical Evaluation of the Possibilities of Developing Data Infrastructure Literacy from User Data Workshops to Public Service Media -- Introduction -- Notions of Digital Literacy Based on User Data Workshops -- YLE Learning as a Content Provider for Digital and Data Infrastructure Literacy -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Everyday Practices and Collective Action -- (Not) Safe to Use: Insecurities in Everyday Data Practices with Period-Tracking Apps -- Introduction -- Material and Methods -- Situating Period Trackers and Period Tracking -- Situating Period Trackers as Gendered Technology -- Resonances in Observing and Measuring Menstrual Cycles.

Motives, Benefits, and Promises of App-Based Period Tracking -- Reasons for Tracking Menstrual Cycles -- Benefits of Using an App -- The Promise of Data and Smart Algorithms: To Be on the Safe Side -- Critiques of Period Trackers' Smartness: Two Safety Concerns or Data Insecurities -- Unwise Algorithms and Old Methods Repackaged -- Critical Dataflows of Intimate Data -- Negotiating Data Insecurities-Pitfalls, Lessons Learned, and New Competences -- Data Insecurities 1: Understanding Menstruating Bodies with and Through Data -- Data Insecurities 2: Sidestepping the Vague Privacy of Logged Data -- Conclusion -- References -- Community Rankings and Affective Discipline: The Case of Fandometrics -- Fan Data and Fandom Metrics -- Locating Community Rankings in Social Media and Audience Measurement -- Large and Loud…Without Sentiment -- Who Is Silenced? -- "Drown Them Out!" Industry-Encouraged Competition and Quantification Anxiety -- Leaving Metrics, Reclaiming Data -- References -- Affinity Spaces as an Analytical Lens for Attending to Temporality in Critical Data Studies: The Case of COVID-19-Related, Educational Twitter Communication -- Introduction -- Analysing Twitter in Times of Crisis -- The COVID-19 Pandemic and German Education in Context -- Case Study and Research Design -- #twlz as an Affinity Space -- Educational Technologies and Their Providers in #twlz -- The Quest for Dialogue with Political Actors -- Towards a Process View in Critical Data Studies -- References -- "Party like it's December 31, 1983": Supporting Data Literacy at CryptoParties -- Introduction -- From Media Literacy to Data Literacy -- Case Studies and Methods -- Supporting Data Literacy at CryptoParties -- Conclusion -- References -- Researching Public Trust in Datafication: Reflections on the Deliberative Citizen Jury as Method.

Introduction: Citizen Juries as Research Methods -- Public Perceptions of Datafication -- Our Citizen Jury Process -- Session 1: What Are Your Criteria for Trusted Interactions with Data-Driven Systems? -- Session 2: What Are Your Criteria for a Trusted Way of Managing Data? -- Section 3: What Are the Most Important Criteria for the Design of Ethical, Just and Trusted Data-Driven Systems? -- Reflections on Findings and on the Citizen Jury as Method for Researching Public Trust in Datafication -- References -- Worker Perspectives on Designs for a Crowdwork Co-operative -- Introduction -- Platform Co-operativism -- Moving Towards a Critical Design Epistemology -- Crowdworker Perspectives on Crowdwork Co-operatives -- Towards a Worker-Driven Design for a Crowdwork Co-operative -- Co-operative Values from the Workers' Perspective -- Platform Infrastructure -- Payment -- Quality Control -- Decision Making and Governance -- A Prototype Software Architecture for a Crowdwork Co-operative -- Example of the Worker Seeking Role and Worker Role Views -- Conclusion: Towards a Crowdwork Co-operative Prototype? -- References -- Counting, Debunking, Making, Witnessing, Shielding: What Critical Data Studies Can Learn from Data Activism During the Pandemic -- Introduction -- Two Shifts of Data Power -- Data Activism as an Alternative to Dominant Data Power -- Data Activist Tactics During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Counting -- Debunking -- Making -- Witnessing -- Shielding -- Data Activism Reloaded: Open Questions for the Post-pandemic World -- What Path for Critical Data Studies? -- References -- Index.