The aim of the paper is to further develop Paul Edwards' concept of "data friction" by examining the socio-material forces that are shaping data movements in ...

Nov 8, 2017 · Data friction influences what data are captured and how they are, or are not, made accessible and re-usable by different social actors, and ...

Data frictions have a "politics": they influence what is known by who, and therefore how future knowledge and social relations are shaped (Bates 2018) . They ...

Aug 11, 2017 · The paper develops a hermeneutic review of the literature on socio-material factors influencing the movement of digital data between social ...

Jan 24, 2018 · The paper develops a hermeneutic review of the literature on socio-material factors influencing the movement of digital data between social ...

Mar 12, 2018 · The politics of data friction · struggle to shape how data do and do not move between different actors. · actors with different, and at times ...

Jul 11, 2022 · In order to enable a political analysis of data friction, this article turns to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's post-Marxist theory of ...

Sep 20, 2022 · Desirable inefficiency is an example of a design pattern that engineers have organically and voluntarily adopted to protect and make space for human values.

Combining critical data studies and political theory, this article conceptualises the current technopolitical conjuncture as one of 'planetary data turbulence' ...

We show that political turnover increases public debt levels, while political polarization or public rent-seeking leads to higher public spending.