scholarly journals Facilitating Data Literacy and Critical Thinking Through Utilizing Open Data Resources in the Textiles and Apparel in the Global Economies Course

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haesun Park-Poaps
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Textiles And Apparel

scholarly journals School of Data and Shifting Forms of Political Subjectivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Valentin Dander ◽  
Felicitas Macgilchrist
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Political Theories

AbstractDigital media are increasingly ‘data media’ and data media are involved in various forms of political activism. This chapter reconstructs political subjectivities around figurations of the ‘digital citizen’ within the field of (open) data activism. The authors draw on interviews, document analysis and concepts from modern and post-sovereign political theories of subjectivation to explore the transformative educational work of the Datenschule (School of Data) project, focusing on the intersection between open data and anti-discriminatory activism. The chapter suggests that although School of Data explicitly positions its work as supporting ‘skills’ acquisition (data literacy), indicating a modernist understanding of subjectivity, the project also generates an understanding of political subjectivation as a multiplicity of distributed transformative processes, entangling data literacy with power structures, data-related and organisational practices.

scholarly journals Data Literacy projects in Canada: Field notes from the Open Data Institute, Toronto node

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Argast ◽  
Lydia Zvyagintseva
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Literacy Initiatives ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Civic Technology

Open data is flourishing in Canada, but there are few formalized data literacy initiatives. Civic technology organizations such as the Toronto Node of the Open Data Institute (ODI Toronto), in partnership with public institutions and advocacy groups, are helping to fill the gap in data literacy through workshops and accessible hackathons. These organizations are collaboratively pursuing the goal of ensuring that open data benefits more than just a minority of technologically privileged Canadians.

scholarly journals Assessing the Use of Government Open Data and the Role of Data Infomediaries The Case of Nova Scotia’s Community Counts Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavis Chan ◽  
Peter Johnson ◽  
Malcolm Shookner
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
World Community ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Additional Value

This study examines the Nova Scotia Community Counts program, a common platform that aggregates data from many sources mirroring what is generally considered as government open data. The role of Community Counts as a data infomediary adds additional value for both data providers and users within information-intensive open data ecosystems. While data literacy is a recurring issue in the open data world, Community Counts has been a success case for engaging the wider community, serving as a catalyst to improve data literacy. This study also reveals the importance of harnessing the social benefits of open data, as it provides additional incentive for users to engage in data, thereby increasing open data usage and allowing further value to be realized by a more diverse base of users.

scholarly journals Data Journalism: From Social Science Techniques to Data Science Skills

Hipertext.net ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Adolfo Antón Bravo ◽  
Ana Serrano Tellería
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Source Of Information

In very few years in journalism, we have gone from looking at social science techniques, what was called precision journalism, to dealing with open data as a huge source of information that lead us to data journalism what connects with data science in the sense of using -again- scientific methods to extract knowledge and insights from structured data. This article offers an overview of that evolution and focuses on some prototypes that have emerged in this new journalistic ecosystem of data journalism, data visualization and data literacy.

scholarly journals Survey Data in Teaching Project (SDiT): Enhancing Critical Thinking and Data Literacy

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Louise Corti
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Data Literacy

Survey Data in Teaching Project (SDiT): Enhancing Critical Thinking and Data Literacy

scholarly journals Data infrastructure literacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395171878631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gray ◽  
Carolin Gerlitz ◽  
Liliana Bounegru
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Collective Inquiry ◽  
Literacy Initiatives ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
Data Journalism

A recent report from the UN makes the case for “global data literacy” in order to realise the opportunities afforded by the “data revolution”. Here and in many other contexts, data literacy is characterised in terms of a combination of numerical, statistical and technical capacities. In this article, we argue for an expansion of the concept to include not just competencies in reading and working with datasets but also the ability to account for, intervene around and participate in the wider socio-technical infrastructures through which data is created, stored and analysed – which we call “data infrastructure literacy”. We illustrate this notion with examples of “inventive data practice” from previous and ongoing research on open data, online platforms, data journalism and data activism. Drawing on these perspectives, we argue that data literacy initiatives might cultivate sensibilities not only for data science but also for data sociology, data politics as well as wider public engagement with digital data infrastructures. The proposed notion of data infrastructure literacy is intended to make space for collective inquiry, experimentation, imagination and intervention around data in educational programmes and beyond, including how data infrastructures can be challenged, contested, reshaped and repurposed to align with interests and publics other than those originally intended.

scholarly journals Teaching Data Literacy for Civic Engagement: Resources for Data Capture and Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon T. Locke ◽  
Jason A. Heppler
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Data Capture ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Many

Endangered Data Week emerged in the early months of 2017 as an effort to encourage conversations about government-produced, open data and the many factors that can limit its access. The event offers an internationally-coordinated series of events that includes publicizing the availability of datasets, increasing critical engagement with them, encouraging open data policies at all levels of government, and the fostering of data skills through workshops on curation, documentation and discovery, improved access, and preservation. The reflection provides an outline of the curriculum development happening through Endangered Data Week and encourages others to contribute.

scholarly journals Is Data Literacy a Catalyst of Social Justice? A Response from Nine Data Literacy Initiatives in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Literacy Initiatives ◽  
Educational Engagement

Is education and more specifically, data literacy initiatives in Higher Education, an appropriate instrument to promote social justice in a context of datafication? Education is (and has been) at the center of the debate over the achievement of social justice as a desirable quality of the human society. However, which type of educational interventions should be promoted to deal with a complex, multi-layered, emergent problem, such is the case of datafication in society? Since the problem is heavily entrenched with a shifting socio-economic model (the so called “surveillance capitalism”) and the technological infrastructures connected to it, educational approaches could be diversified and even contradictory in their purpose of heralding the skills to live in a datafied society. This paper explores nine initiatives in Higher Education aimed at developing the literacies to deal with data in society. Their efforts are concentrated in promoting freedom of choice, awareness, and agency. Though their original intention is not promoting social justice, the analysis is carried out on the theoretical basis provided by Martha Nussbaum on social justice. The initiatives span educational activities with open data as open educational resources, to more formal data literacy activities such as educational engagement with students’ data and students’ personal and educational data. There emerges a still fragmented panorama in responding to the need of promoting social justice in a context of datafication. Given this fragmentation, the article provides a conceptual scheme to address further pedagogical reflection and practice with the aim of supporting social justice against datafication.

scholarly journals Do We need Data Literacy? Public Perceptions Regarding Canada’s Open Data Initiative

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Boychuk ◽  
Mark Cousins ◽  
Amanda Lloyd ◽  
Charlotte MacKeigan
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Initiative ◽  
The Impact

Open Data is a new concept that the Canadian Government is using to encourage civic engagement, to promote economic growth, and as a means of supporting transparency and accountability within the government.  Our research addresses the extent to which the Canadian Open Government initiative, specifically the publishing of open data, has impacted the general public. While emerging research on open data suggests that there is a problem with data literacy levels among citizens, it does not acknowledge the public’s opinion about the relevance of data literacy and open government to their own lives. In order to address this gap, we gathered 42 responses from an anonymous electronic survey that employed both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the opinions of a portion of the Canadian public. We discovered that there are several factors that enable or impede the initiative’s ability to achieve its stated goals of transparency, accountability, and collaboration for the general public—the public’s data literacy levels, clarity of the data, and awareness of the initiative are a few of the most prominent. The results of the study provide further insight into the public’s opinion on open data, their perceived data literacy skills, and the impact the open data initiative has on their lives. First Place DJIM Best Article Award.

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