TY - GEN
T1 - Community indicator data dashboards as infrastructures for data literacy
AU - Peer, Firaz
PY - 2019/6/18
Y1 - 2019/6/18
N2 - Community indicator data dashboards are a class of websites that make community data freely accessible to communities so they can engage with issues of common concern. But this vision of data access and engagement is hindered by numerous barriers. A lack of data literacy is one such barrier that prevents some communities from telling their stories with data. My research is concerned with taking an infrastructural approach to reveal the various socio-technical factors that are critical to the creation, conceptualization and use of data, so I can operationalize a data infrastructure literacy program for such communities. Such a data literacy, which includes not only numeracy, but also knowledge of the human and non-human elements that are implicated in the creation of data infrastructures will, I hope, lead to more critically informed and empowered use of the data for advocacy and civic engagement.
AB - Community indicator data dashboards are a class of websites that make community data freely accessible to communities so they can engage with issues of common concern. But this vision of data access and engagement is hindered by numerous barriers. A lack of data literacy is one such barrier that prevents some communities from telling their stories with data. My research is concerned with taking an infrastructural approach to reveal the various socio-technical factors that are critical to the creation, conceptualization and use of data, so I can operationalize a data infrastructure literacy program for such communities. Such a data literacy, which includes not only numeracy, but also knowledge of the human and non-human elements that are implicated in the creation of data infrastructures will, I hope, lead to more critically informed and empowered use of the data for advocacy and civic engagement.
KW - Data dashboards
KW - Data infrastructures
KW - Data literacy
KW - Digital civics
KW - Participatory design
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U2 - 10.1145/3301019.3324879
DO - 10.1145/3301019.3324879
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069455879
T3 - DIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
SP - 109
EP - 112
BT - DIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
T2 - 2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019
Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -