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The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism

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dc.creatorMilan, Stefania
dc.creatorvan der Velden, Lonneke
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T15:13:20Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T15:13:20Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractAs datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This awareness triggers new forms of civic engagement and political action that we term “data activism”. Data activism indicates the range of sociotechnical practices that interrogate the fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication. Combining Science and Technology Studies with Social Movement Studies, this theoretical article offers a foretaste of a research agenda on data activism. It foregrounds democratic agency vis-à-vis datafication, and unites under the same label ways of affirmative engagement with data (“proactive data activism”, e. g. databased advocacy) and tactics of resistance to massive data collection (“reactive data activism”, e. g. encryption practices), understood as a continuum along which activists position and reposition themselves and their tactics. The article argues that data activism supports the emergence of novel epistemic cultures within the realm of civil society, making sense of data as a way of knowing the world and turning it into a point of intervention and generation of data countercultures. It offers the notion of data activism as a heuristic tool for the study of new forms of political participation and civil engagement in the age of datafication, and explores data activism as an evolving theoretical construct susceptible to contestation and revision.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/991
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2018/01/Stefania-Milan-Lonneke-van-der-Velden_Data-activism.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3166
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDatafizierungde
dc.subjectDatenaktivismusde
dc.subjectdemokratische Handlungsmachtde
dc.subjectMassendatende
dc.subjectEpistemologiede
dc.subjectWissenschaft der gesellschaftlichen Bewegungde
dc.subjectNaturwissenschaftde
dc.subjectTechnologiede
dc.subjectWissenschaftde
dc.subjectdataficationen
dc.subjectdata activismen
dc.subjectdemocratic agencyen
dc.subjectBig Dataen
dc.subjectepistemologyen
dc.subjectSocial Movement Studiesen
dc.subjectScience and Technology Studiesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:005
dc.titleThe Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activismde
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMilan, Stefania; van der Velden, Lonneke (2016): The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism. In: Digital Culture & Society 2 (2), S. 57–74. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/991.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:31:07
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2018/01/Stefania-Milan-Lonneke-van-der-Velden_Data-activism.pdf
local.source.epage74
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage57
local.source.volume2
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/4802620-7
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16954558
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28134685
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q858810

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