The use and usefulness of data depends upon how easily it can be shared across devices and digital systems. While … More
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All data are local – notes from Loukissas (2019)
In his most recent book, designer Yanni Loukissas makes a simple yet compelling argument: all data are local. Loukissas’ book could … More
Digital data is ‘the mess of human nature’ … ‘we might as well have fun with it’
Perhaps one of the most fruitful ways to think otherwise about data in school is to not take data too … More
When do humans make decisions in algorithmic processing?
In Automated Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks draws attention to the moments in which … More
Automating educational inequality through data…? Notes on Virginia Eubanks
In her 2017 book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks examines how social … More
Taina Bucher on relational ontology and data
In her latest book If…Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics, Taina Bucher uses the notion of ‘relational ontology’ to analyse the power … More
Resignation, realism or normalisation?
One of the aims of our research project is to inform, educate and agitate for change in the ways that … More
Narrating data: developing ethnographic accounts of data in schools
One of the research methods we will be using in the DSS project is data ethnography. In a basic sense, … More
Dirty teaching … dirty data?
‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is a long-standing adage amongst computer programmers. In a world now increasingly shaped by the generation … More
Students as data subjects (part I)
Outside of the home, schools are one of the most significant domains for young people when it comes to personal … More
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