Grassroots resource mobilization through counter-data action
Grassroots resource mobilization through counter-data action
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通过反数据行动动员基层资源
作者：
Amanda Meng;C. Disalvo
在本文中，我们记录了亚特兰大草根经济适用房倡导团体的反数据行动和数据行动主义。我们对这些数据活动和策略的观察和洞察是通过人种学、参与性研究和参与性设计来实现的。我们发现，通过社区收集的数据进行反数据行动植根于亚特兰大黑人激进主义和黑人学术的遗产；这种数据行动主义能够调动资源并形成批判意识；设计和媒体制作是数据行动主义中反数据行动后必不可少的活动。基于这些发现，我们敦促开放政府数据领域扩大数据社会影响的概念，包括使用数据在受压迫社区内调动资源，不是为了影响政策和政府，而是为了建设社区内的能力，以改变而不是加入政治结构。我们还主张开放政府数据、关键数据研究和数据行动主义领域的学者认识到黑人社区致力于社会变革的数据行动主义的遗产和历史实践。
In this paper, we document the counter-data action and data activism of a grassroots affordable housing advocacy group in Atlanta. Our observation and insight into these data activities and strategies are achieved through ethnographic and engaged research and participatory design. We find that counter-data action through community-collected data is rooted in a legacy of Atlanta’s black activism and black scholarship; that this data activism enabled resource mobilization and critical conscious making; and that design and media production are essential post counter-data action activities in data activism. Based on these findings, we urge the field of open government data to broaden their concept of social impact of data to include the use data to mobilize resources within oppressed communities not to influence policy and government but to build capacities within community in order to transform, not join, political structures. We also advocate that scholars within the fields of open government data, critical data studies, and data activism recognize the legacy and historic practice of data activism by black communities working towards social change.