Fortun, Kim, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Mike Fortun. 2016. “Pushback: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics.” Big Data & Society 3 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716668903.
AO: This article by Fortun et al. describes dynamics of what the authors call "critical data design" -- the ability to link data and problems coupling an awareness of problems that aren’t yet articulated as problems of widespread public concern with awareness of the data sets that could help translate problems into "public problems" (a la Dewey). I think this is an important read for our RDS WG to discuss because it could help us to better articulate what it is we are in fact trying to do...
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Fortun, Kim, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Mike Fortun. 2016. “Pushback: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics.” Big Data & Society 3 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716668903.
Kim Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn and Mike Fortun, "Fortun, Kim, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Mike Fortun. 2016. “Pushback: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics.” Big Data & Society 3 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716668903.", contributed by Angela Okune, Research Data Share, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 4 January 2021, accessed 1 May 2024. https://www.researchdatashare.org/content/fortun-kim-lindsay-poirier-alli-morgan-brandon-costelloe-kuehn-and-mike-fortun-2016-
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AO: This article by Fortun et al. describes dynamics of what the authors call "critical data design" -- the ability to link data and problems coupling an awareness of problems that aren’t yet articulated as problems of widespread public concern with awareness of the data sets that could help translate problems into "public problems" (a la Dewey). I think this is an important read for our RDS WG to discuss because it could help us to better articulate what it is we are in fact trying to do...