Data, knowledge and power in the 21st Century

21 世纪的数据、知识和力量

• 批准号: 2097317
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2097317
• 关键词: Data; knowledge; power; 21st; Century

Control over the production, communication, and use of knowledge are a key vector through which political and economic power is exercised in the 21st century. Examples of this can be seen all around us from the ascendancy of the modern monopoly, the online platform, contingent on data collection, control and commercialisation to the increasing use of data to inform and legitimise policy making around the world.With infectious disease prevention and control a data-driven problem, the COVID-19 pandemic has only fortified and elevated the use of knowledge in the form of data within policy making around the world. Further, with lock-downs and social distancing measures enforced around the world during the pandemic, more people have fled online for longer periods of time, resulting in a dramatic increase in already vast profits reaped by online platforms. And yet the relationship between knowledge, data and power is not well understood. Who controls data; how that control is a source of power and influence on social and economic and political outcomes; how the data works as a legitimising force in policy making (political power) or advertising sales (economic power). These are key governance questions that require addressing for it to be possible to take a critical view on power structures, processes and institutions in operation which shape the fates and life chances and actors around the world.Knowledge as a form of power remains significantly under-studied within mainstream IPE scholarship. This project aims to address this shortfall and the questions above by asking the question: how is data and knowledge used as a form of power in the 21st century? The project takes a single case study approach, examining the use of knowledge and data in policy making within the initial phase of the UK government's pandemic response. Specifically, the research describes and examines the specific 'geometry' of the power structure in play (in this case a centralised power structure), and investigates social, political and economic outcomes that result from it. Finally, the project assesses some of the practical benefits and limitations of the power structure in place (such as resource constraints and privacy implications) and assesses these in relation to the emergency pandemic context from which it emerged, as well as a business-as-usual scenari

对知识的生产、传播和使用的控制是世纪政治和经济权力行使的关键载体。这方面的例子在我们周围随处可见，从依赖数据收集、控制和商业化的现代垄断、在线平台的崛起，到越来越多地使用数据为全球决策提供信息并使其合法化。随着传染病预防和控制成为一个数据驱动的问题，COVID-19大流行只是加强和提高了全球政策制定中以数据形式使用知识的程度。此外，随着疫情期间全球各地实施封城及社交距离措施，更多人逃离网络的时间更长，导致线上平台本已庞大的利润大幅增加。然而，知识、数据和权力之间的关系并没有得到很好的理解。谁控制数据;控制者如何成为权力的来源，以及对社会、经济和政治结果的影响;数据如何成为政策制定（政治权力）或广告销售（经济权力）中的合法化力量。这些都是需要解决的关键治理问题，以便有可能对影响世界各地命运和生活机会的权力结构，流程和机构采取批判性的观点。知识作为权力的一种形式，在主流IPE奖学金中仍然严重不足。本项目旨在通过提出以下问题来解决这一不足和上述问题：在世纪，数据和知识如何被用作一种权力形式？该项目采用单一案例研究方法，研究在英国政府应对大流行病的初始阶段，知识和数据在政策制定中的应用。具体而言，研究描述和审查的具体'几何'的权力结构在发挥作用（在这种情况下是一个集中的权力结构），并调查由此产生的社会，政治和经济后果。最后，该项目评估了现有权力结构的一些实际好处和局限性（如资源限制和隐私影响），并根据其产生的紧急流行病背景以及一切照旧的情况评估这些因素。