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Data Justice Lab

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data. The lab is hosted at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture.

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  • Launch of project report: Advancing Data Justice in the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act March 10, 2023
  • Call for Papers: 3rd Data Justice Conference – “Collective Experiences in the Datafied Society” December 21, 2022
  • Fellowship Opportunity: Democratizing the Datafied Society December 8, 2022
  • New research report: Top400: A top-down crime prevention strategy in Amsterdam December 8, 2022

New Book: Data Justice

What is data justice? How do we understand datafication from the perspective of social justice? We have written a book that explores different dimensions of this question, looking at the data economy, politics, governance and policy, citizenship and activism, global and local impacts. Published with Sage In September 2022, the book will be the first of a book series on Data Justice with Sage Publications, edited by the Data Justice Lab. We are looking forward to several planned books in this series that will advance the debate on data justice.

Democratising Datafication

How can citizens participate in, and intervene into, the rapid roll-out of data systems in the public sector? How can we democratise datafied governance? Our report Civic Participation in the Datafied Society (pdf) explores a variety of strategies, from citizen juries to oversight bodies to civil society campaigns and alternative discourses. It provides findings from our 3-year research project Towards Democratic Auditing. You can find a summary of the key issues from the report on our new website https://www.datafiedsociety.org/

Cancelled Data Systems

While much of our research explores the increasing roll-out of data systems in public and private institutions, our latest report, Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems, looks at another current development: The cancellation of automated decision-making systems that did not fulfil their goals, led to serious harm, or caused significant opposition through community mobilization, investigative reporting, or legal action. The report provides the first comprehensive overview of systems being cancelled across western democracies.

The report identifies 61 ADS that were cancelled across Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the U.S. and presents a detailed account of systems cancelled in the areas of fraud detection, child welfare and policing. A short article summarising the research findings was published in The Conversation here.

 

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