PROJECT SUMMARY
Everyday Data Cultures
Focus Areas: News and Media, Transport and Mobility, Health, and Social Services
Research Program: Data
Status: Completed
This project explored the role of everyday data practices and literacies in automated decision-making. Its primary contribution is the novel conceptual framework of everyday data cultures, which is based on the cultural studies of everyday life. As well as a number of papers and public talks, it produced a co-authored monograph: Everyday Data Cultures (Polity Press, 2022).
Members of this team used this framework in subsequent research that sought to integrate everyday community experience into data projects with our partners in a variety of sectors across aspects of all four of the Centre’s focus areas. It will be used in future work within the Centre seeking to make sense of the impact and take-up of Generative AI in daily life – at home, at work, and in intimate relationships.
PUBLICATIONS
Everyday data cultures: beyond Big Critique and the technological sublime, 2022
Burgess, J.
Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube, 2022
McCosker, A.
Liminoid Media: On the Enduring Significance of USB Portable Flash Drives, 2021
Kennedy, J., Wilken, R.
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