Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the forthcoming ‘Big Data from the South/Big Data desde el Sur’ event, in Cartagena, Colombia, on July 15th. Looking forward to meet you in Cartagena! Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré
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Deadline for abstract submission: March 1st
Big Data from the South: From media to mediations, from datafication to data activism
Organizers: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) & Emiliano Treré (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italia).
Critical scholarship has exposed how big data brings along new and opaque regimes of population management, control, and discrimination. Building on this scholarship, this pre-conference engages in a dialogue with traditions that critique the dominance of Western approaches to datafication that do not recognize the diversity of the Global South. Moving from datafication to data activism, this event will examine the diverse ways through which citizens and the organized civil society in the Global South engage in bottom-up data practices for social change as well as resistance to “dark” uses of big data that increase oppression and inequality.
Location: Cartagena, Colombia
Date and Time: July 15, 2017, 10am-6pm
http://cartagena2017.iamcr.org/big-data-from-the-south-from-media-to-mediations-from-datafication-to-data-activism/
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Big Data desde el sur: de los medios a las mediaciones, de la dataficación al activismo de datos
http://cartagena2017.iamcr.org/big-data-from-the-south-from-media-to-mediations-from-datafication-to-data-activism/?lang=es
Organizadores: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Emiliano Treré (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italia).
Fecha y Hora: Julio 15, 2017 de 10am – 6pm
Descripción de la conferencia: La crítica académica ha hecho evidente cómo el big data implica nuevos y opacos regímenes de gestión demográfica, control y discriminación. Con base en estas elaboraciones, la pre-conferencia se involucra en un diálogo con las tradiciones críticas al dominio de las perspectivas occidentales sobre la dataficación, que no reconocen la diversidad del Sur Global. Trasladándose de la dataficación al activismo de datos, este evento examinará las maneras diversas en que los ciudadanos y la sociedad civil organizada en el Sur Global se involucran en prácticas de datos horizontales en pro del cambio social, así como en resistencias frente a usos “oscuros” de los big data que aumentan la opresión y la desigualdad.
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