Author: Jeroen

luncheon seminar with Angela Daly (March 21, 1 pm)

On Tuesday March 21th, DATACTIVE will host an informal luncheon seminar with socio-legal scholar and activist Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology & Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society). You are welcome to join! Angela will give a presentation titled ‘reflections on socio-legal studies (and activism) of data’. For more info, you can find Angela’s paper ‘Data and Fundamental Rights’ (2017) here, and visit Angela’s website: https://angeladaly.com/

Bio

I am a socio-legal scholar of technology with interest in the Internet, 3D Printing and renewable energy. I am Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of Law, and a research associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) in the Netherlands. My books, Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap, published by Hart, are out now!

Lonneke at NPO1 on Sousveillance

Lonneke was invited to briefly discuss her sousveillance on the radio at the program Focus, at Nederlandse Publieke Omroep 1.

Find the recording/podcast here (3 minutes, in Dutch):

If you are on the internet, you must assume that you are being watched. You always leave traces. But who is watching all of them? Who keeps track of what you click on, which websites you visit and what searches you type in? And what do they do with it?

Lonneke van der Velden obtained her doctorate in February at the University of Amsterdam for an investigation into internet surveillance and turned the matter around: what happens when the person being spied peeks back?

[blog] Internet Archive and Hacker Ethics: Answers to datafication from the hacktivist world

Guest author: Silvia Semenzin

This blogpost looks into the Internet Archive as a case-study to discuss hacktivism as a form of resistance to instances of control on the Internet and the use of data for political and commercial purposes. It argues hacktivism should not only be considered a social movement, but also an emerging culture informed by what may be defined as ‘hacker ethics’, after Pekka Himanen.

The Internet Archive is a free digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, a computer engineer at MIT, who created a non-profit project which aims to collect cultural artefacts (books, images, movies, audio, etc.) and internet pages to promote human knowledge. Building a “global brain” can be challenging in the era of datafication and the Information Society, especially because huge amounts of information (and disinformation) are added on the internet continuously. Trying to create a modern version of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Internet Archive’s goal is to make human knowledge accessible to everybody and preserve all kinds of documents. So far, the Internet Archive has digitalized more than 3 million of books, still scanning around 1000 books per day.

The Internet Archive in both strategies and business model seems to appeal to ‘hacker ethics’ as described by the Finnish philosopher Pekka Himanen through the hacker ethics of work, hacker ethics of money, and hacker ethics of the network:

1. For Himanen, ‘Hacker ethics of work’ describes passion in work, the freedom to organize one’s time, and creativity -which is the combination of the first two: for hackers, working with passion is the final purpose. This means that financial motivations are not of primary importance. Instead, they are just a result of work.
2. Benefits are measured in both passionate effort and social value, both features of the ‘hacker ethics of money’. This means that the work of a hacker must be recognized by the hacker community and that it must be accessible and open to everyone. This represents the vision of an open and horizontal model of knowledge, similar to the one at the Academy of Plato, which was based on a continuous and critical debate to reach scientific truths, even though many could argue that, in general, hacker culture is still not that open and horizontal (e.g. hostility to non-white male identities). However, projects such as Internet Archive seem to follow this model of shared knowledge for the sake of science.
3. Finally, the ‘hacker ethics of the network’ refers to the relationship between hackers and the Internet. On the one hand, from this relationship stems the value of the free activity, which indicates the act of defending total freedom of expression on the internet. On the other hand, hackers do also worry about involving everyone in the digital community and make the Network free and accessible to everybody (crypto parties are born as a result of this idea). This value is known as ‘social responsibility’.

Applied to the Internet Archive, it seems to draw on three strategies, in particular, that of participation and anonymity by default and non-profit business model. By doing so, the Internet Archive is defending the freedom of information, a fundamental right that needs protection in both the offline and the online world. To make sure that there is freedom of information, it is necessary to involve as many people as possible in the sharing of knowledge. Anyone can read and upload material to the website, thereby taking part in building a global digital library. Secondly, Freedom of information, freedom of expression and the right to anonymity are built in the Internet Archive by design and align with hacker ethics values. The Internet Archive does not track their user; they do not keep the Internet Protocol (IP) address of readers and make use of a secure web protocol (https). The website does not use data from users, not even for marketing: being a non-profit library, Internet Archive is funded on donations instead of advertising, or the collection/selling of personal data.

In extension, it could be argued that the Internet Archive with these anonymity and participatory practices often opposes larger datafication processes. The processes of datafication of society, recently observed in the rise of platforms and apps, implies that our financial habits, personal communication, movement, social network and political and religious orientation will translate into data. The availability of significant amounts of data raises questions concerning their usage by governments and corporations. Their access to Big Data might have a negative effect on both individuals and communities, by increasingly turning citizens into consumers, thereby sustaining a certain form of control. Fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of association or right to privacy seem growingly threatened by the collection and analysis of large data sets.

Guided by these values, hacktivists often criticize the use of technology and Big Data as it would go against their ethics, and try to spread hacker ethics using different a kind of action. Among the heterogeneity of hacktivist action, the Internet Archive can represent a good example of hacker ethics, as well as a powerful project born to defend freedom of knowledge and digital rights. These kinds of initiatives are relevant when researching for hacktivism and datafication because they illustrate how hacker ethics may be spreading the awareness concerning issues of datafication.

References

Himanen, P. (2002). Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Society. Prologue by LinusTorvalds. Destino

Hintz, A., Dencik, L., & Wahl-Jorgensen, K. (2017). Digital Citizenship and Surveillance| Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society—Introduction. International Journal of Communication, 11, 9.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. (n.d.). Retrieved 22 February 2018, from https://archive.org/index.php

Milan, S. & Atton, C. (2015). Hacktivism as a radical media practice. Routledge companion to alternative and community media, 550-560.

Noah C.N. Hampson (2012), ‘Hacktivism: A New Breed of Protest in a Networked World’ 35 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 511, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol35/iss2/6 accessed 05/02/2018

 

About Silvia

Silvia Semenzin is a DATACTIVE research associate and PhD student in Sociology at the University of Milan. She is currently researching hacktivism and hacker ethics and is interested in the influence that digital technologies have on political action, public debate and citizens’ mobilization as instruments for democracy.

Activism through feminist understandings of technology, Stefania Milan @Uppsala University

February 12th, 2018, – Stefania Milan presented her work titled “Studying mediated activism through feminist understandings of technology” at the Uppsala University. The presentation is part of the first panel, Intersectionality beyond feminist studies, in the Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion seminar on Intersectionality. Please find the abstract of her talk below.

Seminar aim

This seminar will focus on intersectionality and how the different forms of discrimination and exclusion combine, overlap, or intersect by examining intersectionality in and beyond feminist studies as well as in political practices. Additionally, the seminar is interested in contributions that expand the concept and praxis of intersectionality in media studies as a tool to analyse the complexity of multiple identities and their relations to power in a mediated social world.

The seminar on intersectionality invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines as well as from activists, civil society, media and public sector to share knowledge, practices, alternatives and ideas on issues related to contextual dynamics of power, inequalities and marginalised communities.

Abstract of talk

Studying activism entails relating to and writing about vulnerable subjects, both groups and individuals. Vulnerability takes many forms, often intersecting known categories of discrimination such as gender, race and sexual orientation and class; what’s more, often activists are subject to surveillance and repression, often perpetrated and/or facilitated through digital technology. Working with vulnerable subjects such as activists calls for setting up appropriate additional safeguards that have consequences, at two levels: ontological/epistemological and ethical/methodological.

While (new) media studies applied to activism have often considered media as an empowering force able to shape activism for the better, feminist theories of technology emerged along the axis of Science and Technology Studies (STS) might help us to take into account as well as contextualize forms of discrimination that exist within and/or are perpetuated through digital technology. This contribution reflects on what can we learn from STS for the study of contemporary activism, with a focus on tech and data activism.

Agenda data-situada desde el sur: Enlazando movimientos y competencias

by Virginia Brussa

English abstract. In Latin America, within the government, science, education, and software development sectors, various epistemic spaces are emerging that relate to data, and deal with issues such as openness, use, reuse, impact, and privacy. But how do the agendas of each movement look like? Can we think about a located agenda and practices common to our territory? If we go through the “content” of the most recent data-intensive meetings, conferences, laboratories, we will be able to visualize a vast thematic agenda. But what about the potential impact of sharing a common fabric of skills/competencies? This blog post argues that we have to combine the distinct practices to be able to think about the benefits of building bridges between movements and actors. But what about the humanitarian data agenda to test a shared common framework based in a “circular fabric” of competencies? It would be a great step forward to imagine a future situated-agenda free of the disciplinary silos within existing practices and actions.

 

América Latina parece ser disparadora de una agenda particular de datos desafiante, al calor de la maduración de encuentros pertenecientes al movimiento de datos y gobierno abierto. Evidencia de ellos es, por un lado, la comunidad de actores que mantienen con interés el debate, la crítica y los desafíos para cada anclaje territorial, y por otro lado, que el acceso, la ciencia o educación abiertas también están tímidamente resignificando sus espacios al calor de normativas, portales de datos, redes, o labs afines a los espacios de apertura originados en la Academia1. Sumado a este escenario, y siendo funcional a dicha agenda (a veces no oportunamente visibilizada), la innovación humanitaria y ciudadana también recala con distintas velocidades en la región.

Sólo como meros ejemplos de la diversidad de actividades que comulgaron con datos podemos mencionar el desarrollo del Primer MSF Scientific Day de AL, las iniciativas de Codeando México tras los eventos sísmicos del mes de septiembre, donde la tecnología cívica enfatizó la importancia del uso de datos abiertos (pero también reclamando oportunamente su ausencia en áreas vitales para una eficaz respuesta ante emergencias), o la relevancia de la identificación de fake news durante desastres. También se han llevado a cabo festivales de innovación ciudadana y abierta, reformulando paradigmas de organismos internacionales a partir de la integración de propuestas de laboratorios de innovación ciudadana, por ejemplo, los laboratorios por la Paz, los encuentros de hardware abierto y ciencia ciudadana, la Semana de la Evidencia, y encuentros de intervenciones urbanas. Todos denotan la mixtura de actores, competencias e intereses potencialmente confluyentes en el armado de una agenda de datos en el espacio regional2.

A pesar del elocuente escenario que se desprende de tantos esfuerzos, las distintas velocidades, fondos y políticas que delinean el rumbo en dicha “agenda de datos”, en ocasiones dan origen a “silos” o subagendas que se resisten al establecimiento de puentes entre los movimientos subyacentes. Esta (infra)conexión conlleva no sólo a gaps de colaboración, sino a demorar la posibilidad de profundizar lineamientos compartidos (facilitados por la definición de estándares y políticas regionales) y en potenciar la acción por-con los datos (a partir de competencias relevantes). Dicho esto, podemos convenir que nos encontramos bajo la presencia de una agenda data-situada bastante bien desarrollada a nivel temático, pero que en su componente de competencias, espacios y actores aún no logra aunar demasiadas energías.

Siguiendo a Milan & Van der Velden (2016) podríamos decir que los lazos entre movimientos regionales como los de innovación y apertura podrían ser uno de los elementos necesarios para fortalecer a la ciudadanía en competencias (digitales, informacionales, de datos), así como para establecer procesos de incidencia hacia el interior de gobiernos, instituciones educativas u organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Pero ¿está siendo la práctica de ésta incidencia y conformación de agenda “situada”? Es decir, ¿estamos considerando realmente nuestros propios procesos, soberanía tecnológica y narrativas respecto a los Datos? Respecto a ello, podríamos preguntarnos brevemente si para asistir a esta suerte de agenda data-situada nos hemos planteado caducar ciertos ismos. Posteriormente podremos adentrarnos en el debate, pero en principio podemos argumentar que al ser revisado el data-centrismo3 y la dataficación o el tecnocentrismo se reformula también la agenda. Sin embargo, al pensar en su profundización, la ausencia de entramados conjuntos de actuación y trasvasamiento de competencias desaceleran su impulso crítico.

Trama circular de competencias

Las competencias o habilidades para trabajar con datos son uno de los elementos que propiciarían una trama circular que facilite la conversación entre movimientos, para ahondar en la localización de agenda y afianzar finalmente las prácticas para un activismo proactivo y reactivo de datos. Una condición a tener en cuenta para guiar e iluminar el camino podría ser el enlace entre aquel que ha la estandarización de datos –impulsada en la región por ILDA –, y la identificación de competencias, ya que “[l]os procesos de estandarización fuerzan a todas las organizaciones a pensar qué tipo de datos precisan, cómo lo recolectan, de qué manera se almacena y eventualmente en los procesos de uso de los mismos” (ILDA, 2016) . Por tanto, de la estandarización se pueden ir desprendiendo de forma paralela aquellas competencias –y en especial las referidas a las “data literacies”- relacionadas a promover formas de acceso, ciudadanía crítica y equidad.

Tal como evalúan desde ILDA, la estandarización de datos está emparentada con la acción y por tanto, para ir más allá del mero discurso, es necesario democratizar las capacidades en el marco dado por los estándares. Prácticas de co-creación de recursos educativos abiertos, intercambio de habilidades y conocimiento en la sensibilización y “formación”, habilitarían esa característica circular provista por modalidades de colaboración (entre movimientos), en ocasión de habilitar la trama propuesta.

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Fuente: Brussa, V (2017) Primer MSF Scientific Day América Latina. UNR

Particular atención podrá requerir en esta agenda data situada, como un emergente, el tópico humanitario. Si bien es un ítem que merece ser analizado con mayor detenimiento, es uno de los temas que por su naturaleza aún no logra tomar una forma regional, como se propone en este breve artículo. Sin embargo, no se le puede negar su potencial de acción para introducir en los lineamientos de lo abierto y colaborativo, herramientas de lo humanitario tal como se presenta en la imagen. Por tanto, los movimientos de innovación política, humanitaria, ciudadana, abierta, académica (parte de la agenda de datos) ofrecen instrumentos que teórica y empíricamente forjan la regionalización-localización comentada, en tanto y en cuanto se reconozcan lazos comunes existentes.

Algunos ejemplos que visualizan directa e indirectamente una futura trama “circular” de competencias , aprendizajes, experiencias en Latinoamérica son el trabajo de Médicos Sin Fronteras en relación a los marcos éticos de uso de datos sensibles, el monitoreo de los Objectivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en el marco de gobierno abierto; los indicadores ambientales sumados al Barómetro de Datos Abiertos; los repositorios de acceso abierto o notas de laboratorios en salud; los Open Trials; las iniciativas de apertura de Contrataciones Públicas o las relativas a presupuestos abiertos y/o Follow the Money; Data Sprints sobre Fake News; estándares de IATI o HDX sobre datos; el proyecto Missing Map; la creación de recursos educativos abiertos para poblaciones migrantes o refugiadas; la gestión de redes sociales y la estandarización de uso de hashtags en situación de emergencias. La convergencia de estos procesos podría fortalecer a la ciudadanía en capacidades afines al uso y reuso de datos. Y así por qué no, ser muchos más codeando durante una emergencia, mapeando en OSM, reutilizando procesos colaborativos de otras esferas, usando metodologías y prototipado de los “labs”, transparentando y co-produciendo insumos varios para el hacking cívico y/o nuevas modalidades de participación ciudadana en clave latinoamericana.

* Los ejemplos citados representan un núcleo pequeño de todo aquello existente para enumerar. En consonancia con eso, estoy realizando una plataforma que intenta sistematizar iniciativas relacionadas a temáticas aquí señaladas, con el fin de aglutinar experiencias y posibilitar otras modalidades de análisis a través de variables seleccionadas.

Virginia Brussa es coordinadora de la Red Argentina de Educación Abierta (AREA) y +Datalab. Co-organizó junto a MSFArgentina el Primer MSF Scientific Day en AL. Es SBTF alumni, participa en CIM, AAHD, Santalab entre otros.

About the author. Internationalist. Interested in collaboratives practices , digital research methologies and spaces of innovation. Co-organized the First Latin American MSF Scientific Day with MSF Argentina. Coordinator of the Open Education Network of Argentina.  Working close to citizen laboratories , open data and gender issues. Member of CIM and AAHD.

1. Recordemos las Conferencias OpenCon Latam en MX, OpenCon Santiago, las actividades en el campo de las Humanidades Digitales en MX, Arg, Co, Uy, las guías de la CEPAL sobre Gestión de Datos de Investigación etc.
2. Interesante sería crear una agenda integral y colaborativa de encuentros 2018!
3. Podemos citar las referencias sobre el fin de la teoría, la revolución de los datos como aporte naïf en la toma de decisiones o las corrientes fundamentalistas en apoyo al bigdata para la predicción de todo tipo de situaciones.

DATACTIVE brunch with Noortje Marres

We had the luxury of Noortje Marres (Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University) joining us for a late breakfast on Friday, February 9th. Over croissants, we touched upon various topics including data politics, and interdisciplinary research: breaking barriers and other intersectionalities. 


Noortje Marres is part of the DATACTIVE advisory board, find her bio below:

My work contributes to the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology and Society (STS) and investigates issues at the intersection of innovation, everyday environments and public politics: participation in technological societies; the role of mundane objects and devices in engagement; living experiments; the changing relations between social life and social science in a digital age. I also work on research methodology, in particular, issue mapping, and am interested in developing creative forms of inquiry between the social sciences, technology and the arts.

PhD defence: Lonneke now Dr. Lonneke van der Velden

Thursday February 8th, Lonneke van der Velden successfully defended her thesis Surveillance as public matter: Revisiting sousveillance through devices and leaks and is hereby awarded the title PhD title Dr. Please find a summary below.

Abstract

Our conceptual understanding of surveillance is continuously challenged by digital innovations. Projects that render (digital) surveillance visible and knowable become interesting analytic starting points. Since surveillance consists of technical and often secret processes, this ‘rendering visible’ inevitably requires a form of translation. This translation process is the main concern of this dissertation: How is surveillance made public? That question is tackled by combining an empirical inquiry on how surveillance is traced, made visible and understandable with a conceptual search for new vocabularies to address surveillance practices and countermeasures.

This thesis presents four case studies into four so-called ‘sousveillance’ projects: two counter-tracking devices for mobile phones and web browsing (InformaCam and Ghostery), and two leaks of surveillance repositories (WikiLeaks and the NSA disclosures). Inspired by Actor Network Theory (ANT), these projects are analysed through the notion of the socio-technical ‘device’ with a sensitivity to the materiality of publics. Specific focus is placed on the instruments through which surveillance is brought to the fore, the transformations that take place, the importance of the different settings, and the kinds of publics these configurations (could) enact.

The analysis, combining Surveillance Studies and ANT, shows that sousveillance has a contextually embedded, and publicly relevant, research dimension. In short, in tackling surveillance, the projects turn surveillance into a public resource for re-appropriation, into ‘public matter’. The conclusion outlines a research agenda into ‘surveillance publics’, publics that combine privacy practices with making things public. Lastly, the dissertation calls for more collaboration between academics and technical surveillance experts.

Available now: Report on Data for the Social Good

We are happy to share with you the report of our two-day Data for the Social Good event the 16th and 17th of November. The report includes both the first public evening organised at Spui25 *, and our invitation-only second day of lectures in the morning and workshops in the afternoon. To all participants, thank you for joining us for this great event and thanks to Spui25 for hosting us!

Please find the report included below, and do feel free to help share / disseminate our collective findings.

A PDF version can be downloaded here.

Also, we would give our thanks to all the speakers, Charlotte Ryan (Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts), Lorenzo Pezzani (architect and researcher, and lecturer at the Goldsmith University of London), Jeff Deutch (Syrian Archive, PhD candidate at the Humboldt-University in Berlin), Niko Para (Syrian Archive, lead technologist), and moderator Fieke Jansen (independent researcher).

* Click here to watch the public event @Spui25

 

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Data for the Social Good brings together scholars and practitioners to explore the politics of big data from the perspective of activism and civil society.

Data for the Social Good is sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC), the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).

 

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Stefania contributing to ‘Social Impact of Alpha and Gamma Sciences’ (@ScienceWorks)

Thursday, December 7, 2017 – Stefania Milan is one of the speakers at the fourth edition of the annual “Alfa Gamma Valorization Congress”. With the presentation of the National Science Agenda, in which alpha-gamma science plays a key role, the event will renew its impact on society.

During the conference, participants and speakers from science, government and business will discuss Social Challenges for Scientific Research. The conference will focus on how we can optimize synergy between societal issues and alpha / gamma sciences, addressing the following questions:

– How can we successfully shape cooperation between society and science?
– What roles can researchers and their social partners take?
– What is demand management at (inter) national, regional and local level?

 

About ScienceWorks

ScienceWorks supports the process of value creation out of scientific research for society. Our approach is to draw on the expertise of sector experts and to apply good practices from around the world. Value creation out of scientific research contributes to our economy and society. We help to optimize this process through the correct use of instruments and to support new connections.

The fields we are active in:
Transferring scientific knowledge to society
Improving processes of value creation out of scientific research
Optimizing the regional innovation system
Internationalization of high tech clusters
Ranking and measuring the impact of university knowledge transfer
Analyzing and supporting science based incubators & science parks

Conheça o trabalho de Stefania Milan @Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies (PT)

Ativismo em tempos de Big Data: conheça o trabalho de Stefania Milan, conferencista do Simpósio Lavits 2017

Find the original article (in portuguese) here

Stefania Milan publicou recentemente “Big Data (a partir) do Sul: O começo de uma conversa necessária”, em parceria com Emiliano Treré, como uma convite para fomentar o debate sobre Big Data por meio de estudos coletivos sobre o papel e o impacto que ele tem no Sul Global. O documento resume as discussões e aponta para possíveis desdobramentos do evento ‘Big Data from the South: From media to mediations, from datafication to data activism’, uma conferência realizada em Cartagena (Colômbia) com foco no questionamento da mitologia e do universalismo da ideia de “datificação” com base em uma epistemologia a partir do Sul.

Em trabalhos recentes, a pesquisadora do DATACTIVE Project e professora Novas Mídias e Culturas Digitais na Universidade de Amsterdam, afiliada também com a Universidade de Oslo, formulou o conceito de data ativismo e empregou-o em um estudo de caso sobre o InfoAmazônia, que fornece análises e notícias sobre as mudanças ambientais na maior floresta tropical do planeta.

O data ativismo tem como característica marcante “a forma pela qual trata o Big Data tanto como meio quanto como fim de sua luta”[1]. Nesse sentido, Milan identifica o data ativismo como uma nova fronteira do mídia-ativismo, na medida em que “se apropria da inovação tecnológica para propósitos políticos.”[2]

A partir dessa definição, a autora escreveu um texto[3], em coautoria com Miren Gutierrez, no qual elas dividem o data ativismo em duas frentes: a proativa e a reativa. Enquanto a primeira é composta por cidadãos que se valem das possibilidades do Big Data para embasar propostas políticas e mudança social, a segunda diz respeito a esforços de proteção e resistência contra a coleta massiva de dados e intervenção política. A InfoAmazônia, enquanto rede de jornalistas e organizações que oferecem atualizações sobre a situação e ameaças ambientais, é classificada pelas pesquisadoras como um exemplo de data ativismo proativo.

“A InfoAmazônia e a emergência de organizações similares anunciam a chegada de formas sem precedentes de considerar e explorar a infraestrutura de dados tendo em vista a mudança social. Apenas o futuro dirá se isso é de fato uma nova, promissora e sustentável base para o ativismo latino-americano conectar atuação política com dados e tecnologia.”

Esse trabalho é apontado por Milan e Treré no texto sobre o evento em Cartagena como “uma das muitas possíveis formas de se ‘virar de cabeça para baixo’ o que sabemos sobre datificação”. Tanto a contraposição à processos que dilaceram a opressão e as assimetrias quanto práticas para a mudança social são apontadas como possibilidades para “concretizar a transição da datificação ao ativismo de dados”.

5º Simpósio Internacional Lavits: “Vigilância, Democracia e Privacidade na América Latina: vulnerabilidades e resistências”
Conferência de abertura: Stefania Milan

29 de novembro, às 10h
Faculdade de Ciências Campus JGM UdeChile – Auditório Maria Ghilardi. (Las Palmeras 3425 Ñuñoa, Santiago).
Gratuito e aberto

Foto: networkcultures/flickr licenciado sob Creative Commons – Atribuição 2.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

[1] Milan, Stefania, Data Activism as the New Frontier of Media Activism. Em “Media Activism in the Digital Age”, Escrito em 2016 e editado por Goubin Yang e Viktor Pickard, Routledge (2017). Disponível em SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2882030

[2] Idem.

[3] Gutierrez, Miren and Milan, Stefania, Technopolitics in the Age of Big Data: The Rise of Proactive Data Activism in Latin America. 2017. A ser publicado em breve sob o título ‘Networks, Movements & Technopolitics in Latin America: Critical Analysis and Current Challenges’, editado por F. Sierra Caballero e Tommaso Gravante. Disponível em SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2935141