Open AccessDATA CITIZENSHIP: DATA LITERACIES TO CHALLENGE POWER IMBALANCE
Author(s) -
Elinor Carmi,
Simeon Yates
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
selected papers of internet research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-3317
DOI - 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12151
Subject(s) - citizenship , literacy , government (linguistics) , power (physics) , democracy , political science , public relations , survey data collection , sociology , focus (optics) , big data , psychological intervention , information literacy , phase (matter) , politics , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , statistics , mathematics , chemistry , optics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , operating system
In this paper we present the findings from the third phase of our(redacted) project on citizens data literacies. The data literacies framework we developed -Data Citizenship - stemmed from an analysis of recent literature on data and digitalliteracy combined with ideas from democratic education. In particular, we focus on the powerimbalance between citizens and ‘big-tech’ and government entities who access, process anduse data about citizens and their networks. We argue that due to its collective, sociallycontextualised, and people-centred qualities, democratic education provides a usefulfoundation for future data literacy education and research interventions. Following anextensive literature review (first phase), and then a UK nationally representative survey(phase 2), we have conducted focus groups during Autumn 2020 and Winter 2021 withcitizens.