Negotiating Digital Data 2
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/26/2022
Start Time: 9:40 AM
End Time: 11:00 AM
Theme: Geographies of Access: Inclusion and Pathways
Sponsor Group(s):
Digital Geographies Specialty Group
, Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Carl Bonner-Thompson
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Carl Bonner-Thompson,
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Description:
Sponsorship: Feminist Geography Speciality Group, Digital Geography Speciality Group
Digital data and algorithms are subject to increasing scrutiny in policy, academic and everyday environments, with anxieties emerging in relation to privacy, surveillance and control (Barassi, 2020). Research about data and algorithms is highlighting the ways our socio-spatial relations are being remade and transformed, especially focusing on the intensification of surveillance, inequalities and violence (Amoore, 2016). So many aspects of everyday life are now subject to datafication - our understandings of our bodies, selves, homes, work places and cities are being reimagined. However, the idea that all aspects of our lives are undergoing datafication is arguably ‘all encompassing’ (Sumartojo et al., 2016). Data are not complete and all knowing, but partial, spatially contingent and processual (Leszczynski and Crampton, 2016; Pink et al., 2018). Data and algorithms have a politics but, at the same time, are messy, uncertain and unknown and lived in relation to our identities and bodies (Bonner-Thompson and McDowell, 2021; Elwood, 2020; Lupton, 2018). Not paying attention to these everyday relations can render invisible moments of resistance, repurposing and creativity (Cockayne and Richardson, 2017; Elwood, 2020; Ruckenstein and Schüll, 2017). It is the purpose of this session, then, to engage in feminist and queer geographical ideas of bodies, identities and everyday places to explore how the messiness of digital data is negotiated in people’s lives, and how the messiness of everyday lives (re)makes data.
This session aims to explore how these complicated relations are being played out and negotiated in everyday lives, places and spaces, seeking empirical, theoretical or methodological papers that situate data and algorithms at the everyday scale. This can include, but not limited to:
- Negotiation of trust and privacy
- Identities, data and algorithms
- Emotional and affective perspectives on data and algorithms
- Domestic spaces and data
- Embodied relationships with data and algorithms
- Data anxieties and uncertainties
- Global, national, regional, urban and local relations of data
- Methodological interventions to research the everyday
Presentation(s), if applicable
Chen Liu, ; Living in ‘idiotic’ homes: multisensory geographies of home in the digital context |
Carl Bonner-Thompson, ; Can your data be trusted: exploring what it means for LGBTQ+ people to trust in digital data |
Siew Ying Shee, Singapore Management University ; Sensing and making sense of data knowledge: Everyday epistemologies, practices, and the geographies of digital health |
Olivia Fletcher, ; Doing auto-netnography: the everyday personal use of self-tracking technologies |
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Negotiating Digital Data 2
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Carl Bonner-Thompson - c.bonner-thompson@brighton.ac.uk