Data Activism and Social Change

• Main Author: Gutiérrez, Miren (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
• Subjects: Communication.; Culture.; Technology.; Journalism.; Media and Communication.; Culture and Technology.

This book efficiently contributes to our understanding of the interplay between data, technology and communicative practice on the one hand, and democratic participation on the other. It addresses the emergence of proactive data activism, a new sociotechnical phenomenon in the field of action that a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Mapping a Better World, a Journey
• Chapter 2: The Many Faces of the Data Infrastructure
• Chapter 3: Proactive Data Activism
• Chapter 4: Crowdsourcing and Mapping Data for Humanitarianism
• Chapter 5: Conclusions and Areas for Further Research.