[Commlist] What data can't hear - blue sky workshop

What data can't hear: A one day blue sky workshop
Convenors: Tanja Dreher, Danielle Hynes, Poppy de Souza

2 December 2024, UNSW Kensington campus
Hosted by UNSW Data Justice Research Network and UNSW Media Futures Hub

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/Call for EOIs:/ We have limited places available for informal 
presentations on the themes of housing and ‘care’ broadly defined. If 
you are interested to contribute an informal presentation or 
provocation, please submit an overview (150 words max) no later than 
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/About:/Data-driven systems, platforms and algorithms are increasingly 
embedded in all aspects of social life and daily communication. This 
‘ubiquitous datafication’ is evident across domains including social 
housing and the NDIS, ‘care’ institutions, and health, education and 
politics. In this workshop we explore the implications of the 
datafication of the social world for processes and practices of 
political voice and listening.

Datafied systems are claimed to offer increased opportunities to have a 
say, to be heard in decision making and service provision, and to be 
part of governance structures. In the context of neoliberalism, these 
platformed opportunities and incitements to speak proliferate, however 
this is a version of voice that matters less and less. By centring 
political voice, we draw attention to voice as agency, participation and 
influence – or voice that matters. The listening lens turns attention to 
processes and practices of receptivity, recognition and response to 
political voice, participation and agency.

In this workshop, we consider questions around the increasing ubiquity 
of datafied voice and listening, including but not limited to the following:

  *
    How does datafication enable or constrain voice as agency or
    self-determination?
  *
    In addition to questions of who can speak, participate or have a say
    - who or what is heard in data-driven systems?
  *
    Can data hear structural or systemic violence, injustice or critique?
  *
    How are data driven systems able to hear - or not hear - political
    voice?
  *

For example, what might be the benefits and harms of automated 
decision-making in disability services for the ‘voice’ and agency of 
people with disability? How do apps and platforms shape opportunities 
for resident voice in social housing and renting? How do the extractive 
logics of contemporary algorithms impact self-determination and sovereignty?

We invite and encourage work that is not yet fully formed, speculative 
provocations and works-in-progress, as well as standard academic 
presentations.

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