Zones of Data Translation: Understanding how social and cultural data are transformed into value

数据翻译区旨在通过讲习班作为方法，进一步扩大大学、社区团体和公众之间的技术理解桥梁。这一后续提案直接建立在我们之前的AHRC拨款、我们的数据自己(AH/L007770/1)的基础上，在该提案中，我们研究了理解和回收年轻人在智能手机设备上生成的数据的方法。更具体地说，我们探索了手机在14至18岁年轻人生活中日益增长的使用率和中心地位，质疑如果用户能够发现和/或捕获Facebook等数据控制器的货币化并将自己的信息分享给第三方，还有什么数据生成的可能性。这些对封闭的数据通信过程的初步干预是为了初步调查当年轻人拿回他们通常在结构上被禁止访问的数据时出现的可能性。研究人员和普通公众都面临着这些不均衡的数据通信过程中固有的挑战，特别是考虑到对能够获取和私有化使用我们的数据的物质过程缺乏民主控制或公众意识。由于这个问题，我们看到了与具有公民意识的技术和数据倡导非政府组织--战术技术集体--合作并向其学习的巨大潜力。他们的任务是与广泛的公众合作，提高对个人数据、隐私和数字安全的认识。我们将通过共享现有工具，共同设计两个新的研讨会，从而扩展我们的跨学科方法方法。从我们自己的数据赠款中共享MobileMiner应用程序和原始基础设施将进一步使我们能够吸引新的公众。为了实现这一目标，我们有五项核心活动来实现我们的目标：1)首先，在我们完成对伦敦Glass Room的参与后，我们将进一步与Tactical Tech合作，并从我们的数据本身拨款中为这一原始工具的未来和长期影响提供MobileMiner应用程序。2)其次，我们将与Tactical Tech合作制作两个独特的研讨会，将在两个不同的活动中试用-一个与Open Rights Group合作，另一个在伦敦国王学院。3)第三，为了在伦敦国王学院启动研讨会，我们将举办一个研讨会，让正在实践大数据跨学科方法并将其理论化的学者和社区从业者聚集在一起。4)第四，Tactical Tech将在2018/19年的Glass Room活动中介绍我们共同设计的研讨会之一。5)第五，我们将编写一份影响报告，借鉴上述活动和最佳做法，面向外地非政府组织的广大受众。在与战术技术集体合作时，我们将提出以下问题，以发展我们的影响：-战术技术已经如何动员研讨会作为研究社会大数据的物质环境的跨学科工具？那么，人文学科的研究人员如何利用这一点来产生更大的影响和参与？-我们如何利用“我们自己的数据”的结果，在课堂和学术研讨会之外吸引新的受众？-技术-文化方法如何促进新的协作空间的发展，以促进创新的人文研究，使公众参与进来，扩大专家和非专家之间的知识交流？

Zones of Data Translation aims at further extending technological bridges of understanding between the university, community groups and members of the public via the workshop as method. This follow-on proposal builds directly on our previous AHRC grant, Our Data Ourselves (AH/L007770/1), wherein we examined ways of understanding and reclaiming the data that young people produce on smartphone devices. More specifically, we explored the growing usage and centrality of mobiles in the lives of young people between the ages of 14 and 18 years old, questioning what data-making possibilities exist if users can either uncover and/or capture what data controllers such as Facebook monetize and share about themselves with third-parties. These initial interventions into the enclosed processes of datafication were meant as a preliminary investigation into the possibilities that arise when young people are given back the data which they are normally structurally precluded from accessing. The challenges inherent in these uneven processes of datafication are shared both by researchers and the general public, particularly given the lack of democratic control or public awareness around the material processes that enable the capture and privatised use of our data. Because of this problematic, we see great potential in collaborating with and learning from the civically minded technology and data advocacy NGO, Tactical Tech Collective. Their mandate is to work with a broad range of publics to raise awareness about personal data, privacy and digital security. Together, we will extend our interdisciplinary methodological approach by sharing existing tools in order to co-design two new workshops. Sharing the MobileMiner Application and original infrastructure from the Our Data Ourselves grant will further enable us to engage new publics. To accomplish this goal we have five core activities animating our objectives:1) First, upon completion of our participation in the Glass Room in London, we will further collaborate with Tactical Tech and make available the MobileMiner application for both the future and long term impact of this original tool from the Our Data Ourselves grant. 2) Second, we will collaborate with Tactical Tech to produce two unique workshops, which will be trialled at two separate events-one with the Open Rights Group and the other at King's College London. 3) Third, to launch the workshop at King's College London, we will hold a symposium, bringing together academics and community practitioners who are practicing and theorising interdisciplinary methodological approaches to Big Data. 4) Fourth, Tactical Tech will profile one of our co-designed workshops at their 2018/19 Glass Room Event. 5) Fifth,we will produce an Impact Report that will address a general audience of NGOs in the field, drawing from the aforementioned activities and best practices. In working with the Tactical Tech Collective, we will ask the following questions as we develop our impact:- How is Tactical Tech already mobilising the workshop as an interdisciplinary tool to study the material environment of social big data? How can this then be harnessed by humanities researchers for greater impact and engagement?- How can we leverage the results of 'Our Data Ourselves' to engage new audiences beyond the classroom and the academic workshop?- How can the techno-cultural method inform the development of new collaborative spaces to facilitate innovative humanities research that can engage the general public, augmenting knowledge exchanges between experts and non-experts?