Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | DIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference |
| Pages | 109-112 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450362702 |
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| State | Published - Jun 18 2019 |
| Event | 2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019 - San Diego, United States Duration: Jun 23 2019 → Jun 28 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | DIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference |
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Conference
| Conference | 2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego |
| Period | 6/23/19 → 6/28/19 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
Keywords
- Data dashboards
- Data infrastructures
- Data literacy
- Digital civics
- Participatory design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction