Data Feminism

D’Ignazio, Catherine; Klein, Lauren F.

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“…COVID-19 presents a state of global emergency where new data are being released at an almost hourly rate, and more people than ever have access to the raw data themselves ( Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center , 2020 ; The COVID Tracking Project , 2020a ). This greater accessibility and public data consciousness (thanks to the rise of sites like FiveThirtyEight and scholarship in critical data studies) imply a simultaneous need for a Jedi Code of sorts: rather than reifying the final graphics, we must question where our data come from and how they can be analyzed and represented ( D’Ignazio and Klein, 2020 ; Loukissas, 2019 ; Noble, 2018 ).…”

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Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian

2020

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In response to the ubiquitous graphs and maps of COVID-19, artists, designers, data scientists, and public health officials are teaming up to create counter-plots and subaltern maps of the pandemic. In this intervention, we describe the various functions served by these projects. First, they offer tutorials and tools for both dataviz practitioners and their publics to encourage critical thinking about how COVID-19 data is sourced and modeled—and to consider which subjects are not interpellated in those data sets, and why not. Second, they demonstrate how the pandemic’s spatial logics inscribe themselves in our immediate material landscapes. And third, they remind us of our capacity to personalize and participate in the creation of meaningful COVID visualizations—many of which represent other scales and dimensions of the pandemic, especially the quarantine quotidian. Together, the official maps and counter-plots acknowledge that the pandemic plays out differently across different scales: COVID-19 is about global supply chains and infection counts and TV ratings for presidential press conferences, but it is also about local dynamics and neighborhood mutual aid networks and personal geographies of mitigation and care.

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Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian

2020

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“…Audrey discussed how hearing stories from people in many different US states helped her contextualize California's more progressive breastfeeding climate, "One of the things that shifted for me was just reminding me that I live in a California bubble. " We interpret this emerging awareness of privilege as growth towards the political, since people often do not understand their personal experience as privileged unless they understand how it is different for others (this phenomenon has been described as the "privilege hazard" [35]). Thus, an individual's personal experience becomes a matter of political concern around differential treatment, where she had not previously conceived of it as such.…”

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“…Reflexivity, a long standing feminist method, is "the ability to reflect on and take responsibility for one's own position within the multiple, intersecting dimensions of the matrix of domination. " [35]. For this reason, we included ourselves as interview subjects in this paper as a method for understanding how we ourselves were transformed-our consciousness was raised-in the process of organizing this hackathon.…”

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"The Personal is Political"

D’Ignazio

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Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Initially conceived as problem-focused programming events, hackathons have expanded to encompass a range of issue areas, stakeholders and activities. There have been important critiques of hackathons in relation to their format and structure, their epistemological assumptions, and their outputs and impacts. Scholars working in Feminist HCI have proposed design considerations for more inclusive hackathons that focus on social justice outcomes for marginalized groups. Evaluative work on hackathons has assessed entrepreneurial contributions, skill development, and affective impacts, but largely absent from the analysis is a view of longterm personal impacts on participants. What kinds of lasting impacts (if any) do issue-focused hackathons have on participants themselves? In this paper, we describe a post-hoc qualitative study with participants and organizers of a postpartum health hackathon in the U.S., one year after the event took place. Our goals were to understand people's motivations for participating, what impact (if any) their participation had on their lives, and how (if at all) their participation shaped how they now understand postpartum health. Our findings indicate that the hackathon functioned as a space of "feminist consciousness raising" in that it provided space for navigating and sharing personal experiences, contextualizing and connecting those experiences to structural oppression, and developing participants' self-and collective-efficacy to create design interventions and enact social change. Feminist consciousness raising is not just "awareness-raising", but rather a specific historic and contemporary practice which we describe and situate in relation to personal experiences of oppression around stigmatized topics. With these findings, we situate feminist consciousness raising in relation to the literature on hackathons and Feminist HCI, speculate which aspects of the design of the event led to it fostering feminist consciousness raising, and generate recommendations for how to intentionally bring feminist consciousness raising to the design of hackathons and innovation events. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Participatory design; • Social and professional topics → Race and ethnicity; Gender.

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“… 1 For a more detailed articulation of our positionalities as well as our feminism(s), see Data Feminism ( D’Ignazio and Klein, 2020 ). …”

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Seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data

D’Ignazio

Klein

2020

Big Data & Society

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This essay offers seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data, drawing from the authors' prior work on data feminism. Our book, Data Feminism (D'Ignazio and Klein, 2020), offers seven principles which suggest possible points of entry for challenging and changing power imbalances in data science. In this essay, we offer seven sets of examples, one inspired by each of our principles, for both identifying existing power imbalances with respect to the impact of the novel coronavirus and its response, and for beginning the work of change.

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Data Feminism

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Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian

Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian

"The Personal is Political"

Seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data

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