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…
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…
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