Grassroots resource mobilization through counter-data action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda Meng (0000-0002-1241-0504, Georgia Institute of Technology), Carl Disalvo (0000-0002-7344-8741, Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Big Data & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2053951718796862 |
| OpenAlex | W2891874691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 26 |
In this paper, we document the counter-data action and data activism of a grassroots affordable housing advocacy group in Atlanta. Our observation and insight into these data activities and strategies are achieved through ethnographic and engaged research and participatory design. We find that counter-data action through community-collected data is rooted in a legacy of Atlanta's black activism and black scholarship; that this data activism enabled resource mobilization and critical conscious making; and that design and media production are essential post counter-data action activities in data activism. Based on these findings, we urge the field of open government data to broaden their concept of social impact of data to include the use data to mobilize resources within oppressed communities not to influence policy and government but to build capacities within community in order to transform, not join, political structures. We also advocate that scholars within the fields of open government data, critical data studies, and data activism recognize the legacy and historic practice of data activism by black communities working towards social change
Atlanta · Citizen journalism · Collective action · Grassroots · Metropolitan area · Participatory action research · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Resource mobilization · Scholarship · Social movement · Sociology · E-Government and Public Services · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Law · Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data · Public Administration
Re-envisioning the Role of “Big Data” in the Nonprofit Sector
Cartographies of Resistance
Cautious hope
The power to plan
Open Data and Equity
Housing data politics in the United States
The interactive field of open government data
Reimagining environmental data
Escaping the Impossibility of Fairness
Data debates in urban development
Reframing data activism
Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism
Social equity in the data era
Data, anecdotes, anecdotal data
The social impact of open government data in Hong Kong
The social imaginaries on governance through data
When open data and data activism meet
Public sector information in the European Union policy
Doubt to be certain
Data in movement
Smart forests and data practices
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration
Unveiling the layers of data activism
Environmental justice implications and conceptual advancements
Dis/Possessory Data Politics
Street Science
Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design
Kinds of People: Moving Targets
From open data to information justice
The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism
Data before the Fact
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University studies on the Negro, Revisited
The Separate City
An Introduction to Qualitative Research
Using geographic information systems to compare the density of stores selling tobacco and alcohol
Digital Media and Democracy
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy
Against Racism
Datatrust
Urban indicators and dashboards
Datafication and empowerment
What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally
Critical Data Studies
Pushback
The conundrum of police officer-involved homicides
Virtual, visible, and actionable
Culture, Power, and Institutions
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |