A Critical Framing of Data for Development
Historicizing Data Relations and AI
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3884036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Martin Mussgnug (0000-0002-5951-057X), Sabina Leonelli (0000-0002-7815-6609) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1109-1121 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12857 |
| OpenAlex | W4402750205 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In times where the use of big data and AI has progressed from an ambitious promise to a formative part of development work, we seek to contextualize and anchor data for development applications and its criticisms to foundational scholarship on the historical trajectory and contemporary implications of datafication and AI. In this contribution, we review Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias’s The Costs of Connection, analyzing the entanglement of capitalism, coloniality, and datafication and connecting these ideas to Matteo Pasquinelli’s labor theory of AI in his work The Eye of The Master. Seeking a two-way exchange between technical and socio-cultural scholarship, we touch upon how an understanding of the longue durée of datafication and development can attune us to the complex entanglements that must be considered when responsibly innovating development applications as well as how these broader framings might benefit from closer consideration of the practical, technical and social challenges of research practices on the ground
Archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Framing (construction) · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · History · ICT in Developing Communities · Philosophy
The Costs of Connection
The Taming of Chance
Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa
On the responsible use of digital data to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata
The decolonial turn in data and technology research
Data Capitalism
Poor Numbers
Decolonial AI
Developmentalism
Trust in Numbers
The Politics of Digital Agricultural Technologies
Technocolonialism
Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance
A poor means test? Econometric targeting in Africa
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Data colonialism
Left to Other Peoples' Devices? A Political Economy Perspective on the Big Data Revolution in Development
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |