[ecrea] new special issue on 'data activism'

The DATACTIVE team at the University of Amsterdam 
(https://data-activism.net) is proud to announce the publication of the 
special issue on ‘data activism’ of Krisis: Journal for Contemporary 
Philosophy. Edited by Stefania Milan and Lonneke van der Velden, this 
special issue features six amazing articles by Jonathan Gray, Helen 
Kennedy, Lina Dencik, Stefan Baack, Miren Gutierrez, Leah Horgan and 
Paul Dourish; an interview with Boris Groys by Thijs Lijster and three 
book reviews (see below for details). The journal is open access and you 
can read and download the article from http://krisis.eu.


Issue 1, 2018: Data Activism (Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy)
Digital data increasingly plays a central role in contemporary politics 
and public life. Citizen voices are increasingly mediated by proprietary 
social media platforms and are shaped by algorithmic ranking and 
re-ordering, but data informs how states act, too. This special issue 
wants to shift the focus of the conversation. Non-governmental 
organizations, hackers, and activists of all kinds provide a myriad of 
‘alternative’ interventions, interpretations, and imaginaries of what 
data stands for and what can be done with it.
Jonathan Gray starts off this special issue by suggesting how data can 
be involved in providing horizons of intelligibility and organising 
social and political life. Helen Kennedy’s contribution advocates for a 
focus on emotions and everyday lived experiences with data. Lina Dencik 
puts forward the notion of ‘surveillance realism’ to explore the 
pervasiveness of contemporary surveillance and the emergence of 
alternative imaginaries. Stefan Baack investigates how data are used to 
facilitate civic engagement. Miren Gutiérrez explores how activists can 
make use of data infrastructures such as databases, servers, and 
algorithms. Finally, Leah Horgan and Paul Dourish critically engage with 
the notion of data activism by looking at everyday data work in a local 
administration. Further, this issue features an interview with Boris 
Groys by Thijs Lijster, whose work Über das Neue enjoys its 25th 
anniversary last year. Lastly, three book reviews illuminate key aspects 
of datafication. Patricia de Vries reviews Metahavens’ Black 
Transparency; Niels van Doorn writes on Platform Capitalism by Nick 
Srnicek and Jan Overwijk comments on The Entrepeneurial Self by Ulrich 
Bröckling.

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