Abstract
In this paper, we describe how we used workshops as boundary objects that bridged the dual goals of data infrastructure literacy and design. We organized 11 workshops with community leaders from the Westside neighborhoods in Atlanta. The moments of breakdown that took place at the workshops allowed the participants to critically reflect on the socio-technical complexities of the data infrastructure, which scholars have argued is key to data literacy. Additionally, these moments of breakdown also offered us, as designers, insights we could use to reimagine data infrastructures. We contribute an ethnographic analysis of the workshops we organized, along with a preliminary set of data infrastructure literacy guidelines. In doing so, we invite the DIS community to take up such workshops as a way to continue to design data infrastructures, after design.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference |
| Pages | 1363-1375 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450358507 |
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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 - Proceedings 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
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Keywords
- Boundary objects
- Data infrastructure literacy
- Design after design
- Infrastructural inversion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction