Communication, Mediation, and the Expectations of Data: Data Valences Across Health and Wellness Communities

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Critique and Contribute: A Practice-Based Framework for Improving Critical Data Studies and Data Science (2017, background): “23 In the various ‘‘data for good’’ spaces that Tanweer and Fiore-Gartland have observed, most of the people involved with the work of data science acknowledge to some extent the contingent, constructed, and value-laden nature of data.”
Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process (2016, background): “The values and expectations across different contexts of data production and use are part of what constitutes what data mean and what data may do (Fiore-Gartland & Neff, 2015; Vertesi & Dourish, 2011).”
From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data (2017, background): “The notion that quantified data may enable people to more easily express things that are burdensome to verbalize and act as a communicative aid is something that a number of theorists have identified in the healthcare context (Fiore-Gartland and Neff, 2015; Kamphof, 2015; Ruckenstein, 2015).”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “What people expect out of their data, the “data valences” (Fiore-Gartland & Neff, 2015), are important aspects of the affordance of socio-technical systems.”