Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word

Couldry, Nick ORCID: 0000-0001-8233-3287 (2024) Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word. Social Movement Studies, 23 (3). 422 - 428. ISSN 1474-2837

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Abstract

This guest contribution to the Contentious Data special issue asks: What are the fundamental processes underlying the possibility of data activism? It argues that, if like everything else, social movements are being datafied, this operates on at least four levels: a change in the general conditions under which all social movements operate; data becoming either the specific or general object of activism; and finally, data becoming crucial to practices of movement resistance. Underlying this is a further pattern, that data as a narrative are increasingly an important aspect of contestation in contemporary politics. I interpret this general phenomenon through the lens of the social theory of Alberto Melucci and the leader of the Zapatistas movement, Subcomandante Marcos.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csms20
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Q Science > Q Science (General) H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2024 11:18
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2024 03:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122140

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