Spatial Justice and Data Justice - Geomedia Speaker Series presents a digital seminar
This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies and datafication shape and produce new forms of inequalities globally and locally. While much of the research literature discusses datafication in the context of the industrial West, in recent years more and more focus has been paid to Global South.
Perspectives from Global South are also part of a broader attempt to decolonize scholarship on datafication, algorithms and AI by questioning data universalism. This research has showed the complex ways in which datafication shapes societies and citizenship with variety of regional and local differences.
While new forms of digital practices are opening up, at the same time old colonial mindsets continue to maintain power in the operations of technology companies, and digital development in the Global South. However, new avenues of resistance, activism and social change are emerging, not only in the South but also in the North. Community building, empowerment, counter-mapping, and data activism draw on rich traditions of social movements while ideas of data as public good and the ideal of data welfare state seek to imagine alternatives to datafied society.
Together these different perspectives envision how we might start to understand the interconnectedness of spatial justice and data justice.
Speakers:
Payal Arora
Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Emiliano Treré
Senior Lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation, Cardiff University
Discussant:
Anne Kaun, Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Södertörns University
February 24
13.00-15.00 local time, Sweden (1-3 pm CET)
Moderator
Visiting Professor of Geomedia studies Kaarina Nikunen
