We are really pleased to announce the publication of a new article that explores how schools frame what can (and cannot) be ‘known’ about students through the data that is processed and produced through institutional digital systems and technologies.
M/F/X … why converting gender into data is more complex than often presumed
We have written previously about the exclusionary nature of school data – using the example of non-binary students and the…
Digital divination – seeing data-driven analytics as a matter of faith rather than a matter of fact?
At a recent workshop, Tim Neale raised the idea of approaching digitally-driven ‘prediction’ in terms of ‘divination’ During the course of his…
What is ‘Design Justice’? Notes on Costanza-Chock (2020)
Introduction The idea of ‘design justice’ has become a regular feature of socially-minded discussions of technology development. In practical terms,…
Deb Raji on what ‘algorithmic bias’ is (… and what it is not)
Deborah Raji – a prominent Nigerian-Canadian computer scientist – recently took to Twitter to push back against increasingly testy discussions around algorithmic…
new DSS paper in Int. J. of Research & Method in Education
We are very pleased to announce the publication of a key methods paper from the DSS project – an overview…
“Those who control the questions shape the answers” (Floridi)
Luciano Floridi offers some interesting thoughts on the changing nature of power in an age of information. As he puts…
new DSS article in Research In Education
Student attendance is a basic data-point in the daily operations of every school … so what does school use of attendance data tell us about the realities of the ‘datafication’ of education?
‘We know our customers’
During our research we are always trying to explore the reasons, motivations and rationales that lie behind why schools are…
new DSS article in Oxford Review of Education
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper from our empirical work in the journal Oxford Review…
