Data justice made tangible, spatial and actionable
An exploration of everyday data fairness through game making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12979460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Tedeschi (0000-0003-0329-2857, University of Turku, corresponding author), Dimitrios Gkouskos (0000-0002-5130-9230, Intelligent Systems Research (United States)), Andrea Resmini (0000-0003-2349-347X, Intelligent Systems Research (United States)) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19427786251396639 |
| OpenAlex | W4416794192 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 49 |
Data justice is negotiated and performed in everyday micro-actions and spatial settings. Yet it is hard to visualise, unpack and, thus, act upon, as its spatial and actionable characteristics remain hidden: everyday actions tend to be carried out automatically, and their data dimension remains, in most cases, not tangible and seemingly not operable. This article explores how data (in)justice can be made tangible, spatial, actionable and safely experimented with through tabletop game making and prototyping. The data was collected in a class setting within the Design Games Framework (DGF), a structure where research participants, first, write daily diaries describing their everyday socio-spatial contexts and, second, prototype a tabletop game reworking existing board games through the relevant topics emerging from the diaries. Results show how the process of designing games to explore data justice discourses and ethical dilemmas, such as fairness and transparency on the use of data, or data privacy, enhances actionability over data by making it tangible and spatial
Class (philosophy · Dimension (graph theory · Economic Justice · Everyday life · Game design · Process (computing · Qualitative property · Transparency (behavior · Data Visualization and Analytics · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Geographic Information Systems Studies
Introduction
Charting the Unknown: Tracking the Self, Experimenting with the Digital
We Are Data
Discriminating Data
Data Feminism
Critical Play
Design Justice
Wicked Problems in Design Thinking
Exploring ‘digital placemaking’
Exploring Data Justice
Datafication, development and marginalised urban communities
The right to the city and data protection for developing citizen-centric digital cities
The algorithmic imaginary
Crime, Bodies and Space
Satellite Remote Sensing for Environmental Data Justice
Practicing environmental data justice
The emotional in-formation of digital life
The Datafication of Intimacy
Tactics of invisibility
Feeling your data
Revising the smart home as assemblage
The affective intensities of datafied space
Data doubles co-constructing spatial practices
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
Datafication and urban (in)justice
Broken data
The social imaginaries of data activism
Data doxa
What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally
Towards data justice? The ambiguity of anti-surveillance resistance in political activism
When data is capital
How do data come to matter? Living and becoming with personal data
Counter-mapping the mobile border
Material anchors for conceptual blends
The diverse domains of quantified selves
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |