[Commlist] IJoC Publishes a Special Section on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Civic
Participation in the Datafied Society


How do we advance citizen participation in a world increasingly governed
through data infrastructures?

As data systems are deployed for commercial and public services, citizens
are profiled, categorized, and "scored" and their future behavior predicted.
Yet they have few possibilities to understand and intervene into these
processes. What, then, are the implications of the increasing rollout of
algorithmic and data-based decision-making for active citizenship and
participation? How can citizens intervene into the development and
management of the data systems that increasingly organize society? How do we
maintain and expand civic participation in a context of rapid technological
change?

Building on the growing range of research in the fields of critical data
studies and data justice, this Special Section on Civic Participation in the
Datafied Society, guest-edited by Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden,
and Emiliano Treré, explores new questions at the intersection of
datafication and participation. Based on papers presented at the second
international Data Justice conference organized by the Data Justice Lab, the
Special Section brings together six exciting contributions that collectively
investigate practices, structures, and constraints of civic engagement in a
datafied society. From different disciplinary and geographic perspectives,
they discuss the role of citizen voices in data governance; questions of
data literacy and understanding; self-organized data audits and data
production; participatory institutions, as well as the wider social and
political context of participation.    We invite you to read these 
articles that published in the International
Journal of Communication on May 18, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read
the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!

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Civic Participation in the Datafied Society—Introduction
 Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden, Emiliano Treré
Participatory Governance in the Digital Age: From Input to Oversight 
Rikki Dean

Citizen Data Audits in the Contemporary Sensorium Katherine M. A. 
Reilly, Esteban Morales
A Democratic Approach to Digital Rights: Comparing Perspectives on Digital
Sovereignty on the City Level Paola Pierri, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning

Data Citizenship: Data Literacies to Challenge Power Imbalance Between
Society and "Big Tech" Elinor Carmi, Simeon Yates

Another Infrastructure Is Possible: Grassroots Citizen Sensing and
Environmental Data Justice in Colombia Carlos Barreneche, Andres 
Lombana-Bermudez

Understanding Civic Participation and Realizing Data Justice Natalie Fenton
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Larry Gross, Editor Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden, and Emiliano Treré, Guest Editors
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Annenberg Press
(annpress /at/ usc.edu)
International Journal of Communication
USC Annenberg Press
Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/
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