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"Data Justice" By Design: Building Engagement Through Civic Technologies

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3173024

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

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The ubiquity of mobile technologies has led communities to engage with environmental and political concerns through collecting, representing, and analysing data. Activist engagement through data collection aims to hold businesses and the state to account--positioning itself against big data and proprietary technologies that foreclose on agency. Design scholars have unique insight to bring as society addresses the ethical and social issues emerging from data-driven technologies and their development. In my dissertation I focus on the design of civic technologies for environmental accountability--map platforms, mapping techniques, and ambient sensor networks for documenting pollution. By adopting an action research framework to investigate these projects, my research examines how critically-informed, participatory practices intervene to build more sustainable and equitable socio-technical systems, contributing an understanding of how these practices can be applied in new contexts.

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"Data Justice" By Design: Building Engagement Through Civic Technologies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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DOI:10.1145/3170427

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Flawn LSoden R(2024)Autonomy, Affect, and Reframing: Unpacking the Data Practices of Grassroots Climate Justice ActivistsProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661585(3016-3028)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
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Aitamurto TRoyal PSaldivar J(2023)Disagreement, Agreement, and Elaboration in Crowdsourced Deliberation: Ideation Through Elaborated PerspectivesExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585708(1-10)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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Garcia PSutherland TSalehi NCifor MSingh A(2022)No! Re-imagining Data Practices Through the Lens of Critical RefusalProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35579976:CSCW2(1-20)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
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