Towards Critical Data Studies: Charting and Unpacking Data Assemblages and Their Work

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Engaging Solidarity in Data Collection Practices for Community Health (2018, unknown): “This includes unpacking data assemblages—“all of the technological, political, social and economic apparatuses and elements that constitutes and frames the generation, circulation, and deployment of data” [40].”
Digital education governance: data visualization, predictive analytics, and ‘real-time’ policy instruments (2016, unknown): “Education governance is being enacted through new kinds of digital ‘ policy instruments ’ that allow educational ‘ policy to be made material and operational ’ (Lascoumes and le Gales 2007, 4), and that are also situated in a wider ‘ data infrastructure ’ (Kitchin and Lauriault 2014).”
Towards Transparency by Design for Artificial Intelligence (2020, methodology): “The concept of “data assemblages” (Kitchin and Lauriault 2014) captures this con-textuality and fluidity of data-based technologies, including algorithms (see Siles et al. 2020 for a recent application of the concept to the Spotify recommendation algorithm).”