We are happy to announce the publication of another paper from the DSS project. This paper – titled “There is…
Data activism – an agonistic approach (notes on Crooks & Currie 2021)
In a broad sense, data activism describes the process of groups that are traditionally marginalised and disadvantaged by dominant data…
Our headline finding in 240 characters!
This is a complex three-year research project … but we have reached a stage where we are thinking about what…
Queer data & queering data (notes on Ruberg & Ruelos 2020)
The idea of ‘queer data’ is one of a few emerging literatures that are deeply concerned with the harms that…
first glimpse of our ‘Building Data Literacies’ resources
We have been working hard to develop a set of resources and curriculum materials to support secondary school classes in…
Bringing critical sociology into ‘critical data studies’ (notes on Couldry 2020)
Nick Couldry (2020) raises the point that critical data studies is not as critical as it needs to be. Looking…
Key concept: the ‘data assemblage’
A central concept within critical data studies is the idea of the ‘data assemblage’ – what Iliadis & Russo (2016, p.1)…
What is Critical Data Studies?
Most contemporary social science accounts of digital data are located within what has become known as ‘Critical Data Studies’. As…
new DSS article in British Journal of Educational Studies
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…
