Johnson, Jeffrey Alan (2015) How data does political things: The processes of encoding and decoding data are never neutral. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (07 Oct 2015). Website.
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Abstract
It is difficult to see the political structure of data, because data maintains a veneer of scientistic objectivity. But data is inherently a form of politics, argues Jeffrey Alan Johnson. Data does not just allocate material things of value, it allocates moral values as well. Data producers encode a state of the world at a given time, which is then decoded by data users to shape social practice. As such, a political theory of data, grounded in distributive and relational information justice, is necessary.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0 |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2017 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 23:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70890 |
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