Critical Data Studies: A dialog on data and space

By Craig M. Dalton, Linnet Taylor, Jim Thatcher. 2016

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In light of recent technological innovations and discourses around data and algorithmic analytics, scholars of many stripes are attempting to develop critical agendas and responses to these developments (boyd and Crawford 2012). In this mutual interview, three scholars discuss the stakes, ideas, responsibilities, and possibilities of critical data studies. The resulting dialog seeks to explore what kinds of critical approaches to these topics, in theory and practice, could open and make available such approaches to a broader audience.

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What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally (2017, methodology): “This ﬁts with a current trend where scholars worldwide are calling for change in terms of the way data’s social impacts are researched (Cohen, 2012; Dalton et al., 2016; Floridi, 2016; Kleine, 2010; Schwartz and Solove, 2011).”
Ethical Machine Learning in Healthcare (2020, background): “Some of this work, referred to as critical data studies, is from a social science perspective (9, 10), whereas other work leads with a technical and computer science perspective (11, 12, 13).”
When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction (2019, background): “As we can see, this growing body of research on critical data studies (Dalton et al., 2016) has shown how the production, distribution, and use of data is situated within an emerging political economy that has wide-ranging implications across society: from the restructuring of cities and the state…”
The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading? (2021, background): “Even before this decolonial turn, ‘ critical data studies ’ was applying lessons from these ﬁ elds to examine the uneven development of data production (Dalton et al., 2016).”