The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism
The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism
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数据行动主义的另类认识论
DOI：
10.14361/dcs-2016-0205
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发表时间：
2016
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L. V. D. Velden
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作者：
S. Milan;L. V. D. Velden
随着信息化逐步渗透到当代社会的各个领域，公民越来越意识到信息作为社会生活新结构的关键作用。这种意识引发了新形式的公民参与和政治行动，我们称之为“数据行动主义”。数据行动主义表明了社会技术实践的范围，这些实践质疑了由数据化带来的根本范式转变。结合科学技术研究和社会运动研究，这篇理论文章提供了一个数据行动主义的研究议程的预演。它突出了民主机构与民主化的维斯，并将积极参与数据的方式统一在同一标签下（“积极的数据行动主义”，例如，“积极的数据行动主义”）。G.基于数据库的宣传）和抵制大规模数据收集的策略（“反应性数据行动主义”，G.加密实践），被理解为一个连续体沿着活动家定位和重新定位他们自己和他们的策略。文章认为，数据行动主义支持公民社会领域内新的认知文化的出现，使数据作为一种了解世界的方式，并将其转变为一个干预点和数据反主流文化的产生。它提供了数据行动主义的概念，作为一个启发式的工具，为研究新形式的政治参与和公民参与的时代，并探讨了数据行动主义作为一个不断发展的理论结构，易于验证和修订。
Abstract As datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This awareness triggers new forms of civic engagement and political action that we term “data activism”. Data activism indicates the range of sociotechnical practices that interrogate the fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication. Combining Science and Technology Studies with Social Movement Studies, this theoretical article offers a foretaste of a research agenda on data activism. It foregrounds democratic agency vis-à-vis datafication, and unites under the same label ways of affirmative engagement with data (“proactive data activism”, e. g. databased advocacy) and tactics of resistance to massive data collection (“reactive data activism”, e. g. encryption practices), understood as a continuum along which activists position and reposition themselves and their tactics. The article argues that data activism supports the emergence of novel epistemic cultures within the realm of civil society, making sense of data as a way of knowing the world and turning it into a point of intervention and generation of data countercultures. It offers the notion of data activism as a heuristic tool for the study of new forms of political participation and civil engagement in the age of datafication, and explores data activism as an evolving theoretical construct susceptible to contestation and revision.