Data Justice 2023 Conference Programme

Programme at a glance:

Day 1

9 .00 – 9.30Welcome
9.30 – 11.00Keynote Plenary 1
11.00 – 11.15Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45Parallel Sessions A
12.45 – 13.45Lunch
13.45 – 15.15Parallel Sessions B
15.15 – 15.30Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00Parallel Sessions C
17.00 – 18.00Roundtable
19.30 – 22.00RECEPTION

Day 2

9.30 – 11.00Parallel Sessions D
11.00 – 11.15Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45Parallel Sessions E
12.45 – 13.45Lunch
13.45 – 15.15Keynote Plenary 2
15.15 – 15.30Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00Parallel Sessions F
17.00Conference End

Detailed programme

DAY 1

9:00

WELCOME (Room 0.06)

9:30 – 11:00

KEYNOTE PLENARY 1: EXPERIENCES AT THE MARGINS (Room 0.06)
Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, University of London), Patrick Williams (Manchester Metropolitan University), Hamid Khan (StopLAPDSpying Coalition). Chair: Alison Powell  

11:00 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase)

11:15 – 12:45

PARALLEL SESSIONS A

GOVERNING PUBLICS WITH DATA (chair: Joanna Redden, Room 1.06)

Diletta Huyskes (University of Milan) The social construction of algorithms in public services: Making sense of their impacts between Italy and the Netherlands    
Andreas Jorgensen (Aalborg University) Democratising datafied social work with marginalised communities  
Juan Diego Castanedo Gomez (University of Erfurt) No mistakes: Infallibility of the digital welfare state and
beneficiary marginalization
   
Lena Podoletz and Morgan Currie (Edinburgh University) Automating Universal Credit: A case of temporal punitiveness 
Rafaela Alcantara (Institute of Technology Assessment) Smart cities and feminist perspectives on the urban space: Connecting the dots towards the right to the city

DATA STEWARDSHIP (chair: Jedrzej Niklas, Room 1.08)  

Gijs Vanmaanen (Utrecht University), Tommaso Fia (European University Institute) Data commons: Autonomy, redistribution, and responsiveness  
Aditya Singh (University of Edinburgh) Data stewardship from a collective critical lens – The case of data driven agriculture  
Gary Leeming and Emily Rempel (Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative) Challenges of developing new models for civic data stewardship for the Liverpool City Region  
Manuel Portela and Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Challenges and opportunities for building a community-led data trust under the European regulation  
Gaurika Chaturvedi (University of Amsterdam) Data control for whom? The European Commission’s Digital Wallet  

DATA MEMORIES AND CULTURES (Chair: Luke Stark, Room 1.09)  

Jo Bates, Itzelle Medina Perea, Erinma Ochu, Monika Fratczak (University of Sheffield) Patterns in practice: Deepening understanding of data cultures for better AI futures  
Anne Lee Steele (Alan Turing Institute) Comparative perspectives on the human infrastructures behind open knowledge  
Edith Darin (University of Oxford) Blending the ‘map’ and the ‘census’ in regulating a country: The use of satellite imagery for population estimation in hard-to-reach areas  
Marco Humbel (University College London) Archival activism and data ethics  
Benedict Olgado (University of California) Datafied mnemopolitics: Databases, agonism, and transitional justice  

WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)

From the personal to the collective: Bringing context to reimagine impact assessments
(Jacklyn Sawyer and Gulsen Guler, Columbia University)  

ONLINE PANEL: DATA COLONIALISM, NATIONALISM AND INJUSTICE (Chair: Cate Hopkins, Room 1.05) 

Pradipa Rasidi (EngageMedia) “Inevitable forces of progress” – Technonationalist datafication and ideologies of developmentalism in OIndonesia  
Roohollah Honarvar (Sharif University of Technology), Ahmadreza Boroumandi (Amirkabir University of Technology) and Bayan Khosravi (Mehralborz Higher Education Institute) Fallen between the gaps: Seeking justice for informal users in the datafied society  
Safir Abdullah (Cambridge University) Datafied interiority: A framework for understanding the violence of data colonialism on human subjects  
Nikita Sonavane and Sanjana Meshram (Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project Digitising caste: Criminal databases and policing in India  

12:45 – 13:45

LUNCH (Social Staircase)

13:45 – 15:15

PARALLEL SESSIONS B

RACIALISATION AND RACISM (Chair: Philippa Metcalfe, Room 1.06)

Jill Toh (University of Amsterdam) Conceptualising racialised labour and the platform economy  
Ainhoa Douhaibi (Universiitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Aito Jimenez (University of Melbourne) Datafying racism in Catalonia  
Aunam Quyoum and Mark Wong (University of Glasgow) Co-producing dialogues and valuing lived experience to counter racial inequality in everyday digital services  
Tiera Tanksley (University of Colorado at Boulder) Glitching the System: How Black youth resist and redesign racist technologies towards collective liberation  
Eva Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey, John Richardson (Sheffield University) Resisting the datafication of hate  

INCLUSION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (Chair: Arne Hintz, Room 1.08)

Emily Rempel (University of Liverpool) How can the imagined characteristics of a public inhibit or promote their inclusion in public engagement around data?  
Elizabeth Nelson (Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland) From the inside out: Examining the role of public engagement and involvement in democratising data within a data-driven research centre  
Joe Noteboom (University of Edinburgh) Exploring university students’ lived experiences of datafication, data literacies and the potential for collective data governance in UK higher education  
Lorenzo Dalvit (Rhodes University) Data justice and the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa  
Brian Tshuma (Southern Data Clinic LBG) Emerging civil society responses to datafication in Ghana  

DATAFIED HEALTH  (Chair: Lisa Reutter, Room 1.09)

Silvia Masiero, Alina Krogstad, Guro Handeland, Johannes Fatland Skjeie, Jens Kaasbøll (University of Oslo) Health data justice in Malawi: Scannable codes as coordinative artefacts  
Ariel Guersenzvaig (Barcelona School of Design and Engineering) Can machine learning make naturalism about health truly naturalistic? A reflection on a data-driven conception of health  
Yu Sun (University of Glasgow) and Wilfred Yang Wang (University of Melbourne) Space of algorithmic surveillance: A study of China’s health code system (jiankang ma) and its COVID-19 governance  
Isobel Rorison (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University) Datafication and health inequalities  
Pinar Barlas (University of Western Ontario) A critical look at critical care data: MIMIC-IV’s construction, contents & potential consequences  

WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)

Roundtable: Digital Technologies in the Anthropocene: Data Justice Meets Environmental Justice
(Ana Valdivia, Oxford University and Sebastián Lehuedé, Cambridge University)  

ONLINE PANEL: SECURITY, RISK AND RIGHTS IN DATAFIED SOCIETIES  (Chair: Jessica Brand, Room 1.05)

Stefano Calzati (TU Delft) Conceptualising the data republic: Fair data ecosystems as a way to balance individual and collective rights and principles  
Alexandra Ciocănel, David Beer, Roger Burrows, James Cussens, and Alison Wallace (University of York and University of Bristol) From bank statements to Open Banking: The digitalisation of financial information in tenant referencing  
Sucheta Lahiri (Syracuse University) Managing data risk, data justice, and labor in the Global South
Natalie Byrom (Legal Education Foundation) Democratising digital justice – Overcoming challenges to incorporating lived and collective experience into court data governance

15:15 – 15:30

COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase)

15:30 – 17:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS C

DATA AND AI GOVERNANCE (Chair: Aphra Kerr, Room 1.06)

Siddharth de Souza and Linnet Taylor (University of Tilburg) Norm entrepreneurs and data governance  
Stefan Baack (Mozilla Foundation) and Danny Lämmerhirt (TU Dortmund) Alternative data governance projects: Pioneers of collective data practices?  
Karine Gentelet (UQO) and Sandrine Lambert (Université Laval) Civil society participation and governance on artificial intelligence (AI) issues in a transnational context  
Jef Ausloos (University of Amsterdam) Collective data empowerment and the GDPR

DATA SOLIDARITIES (Chair: Becky Kazansky, Room 1.08)

Helen Kennedy, Susan Oman, Hannah Ditchfield (University of Sheffield) Everyday data solidarities as collective experiences in the datafied society  
Tiziano Bonini (University of Siena), Emiliano Trere (Cardiff University), Zizheng Yu (Greenwich University), Swati Singh (University of Delhi), Daniele Cargnelutti (Universidad de Guanajuato), Francisco Javier López-Ferrández (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) Cooperative affordances: How to learn, resist and build solidarity in the platform society  
Julian Posada (Yale University) Data work and territory: How artificial intelligence depends on solidarity  
Cate Hopkins (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University) Collective action in a digitised workplace  
Vassilis Charitsis (Brunel University), Mikko Laamanen (Oslo Metropolitan University), Tuukka Lehtiniemi (Helsinki University) Towards algorithmic luddism: Theorizing class struggles in datafied societies  

DATAFIED EDUCATION (Chair: Silvia Masiero, Room 1.09)

Jana Fedtke (Northwestern University Qatar) Data justice in digital education  
Claudia Figueras and Alexandra Farazouli (Stockholm University) Teachers’/Developers’ insights and experiences with automated grading systems in higher education  
Veli Hillman and Molly Esquivel (LSE) The ‘solution’ stack of a neoliberal inferno apparatus: A call for teacher conscience  
Irving Huerta (Cambridge University) Cambridge Data Schools: A critical pedagogy approach for teaching data  
Irina Zakharova (University of Bremen) Mapping educational data infrastructures: Regulation, participation, and care  

PROJECT PRESENTATION (Room 1.10.A)

Researching Data Justice (Lina Dencik, Fieke Jansen, Philippa Metcalfe, Jedrzej Niklas, Javier Sanchez-Monedero and Jessica Brand, Data Justice Lab)  

ONLINE PANEL: INTERROGATING THE STATE AND DATA GOVERNANCE (Chair: Isobel Rorison, Room 1.05)

AJ Withers (Simon Fraser University) Combatting epistemic injustice by using state data against the state  
Andrew Crosby (University of Waterloo), Alexander McClelland (Carleton University) and Rohan Khan (Queens University)
Tracking (In)Justice: Documenting police use of force-involved deaths in Canada
Bryce Newell and Vincent Huynh-Watkins (University of Oregon) Abstracting injustice: Abrogating democratic governance through code and the algorithm  
James Shaw (University of Toronto) and Sharifah Sekalala (University of Warwick) Health data justice: Building new norms for health data governance
Maurice Jones and Meaghan Wester (Concordia University) Machine learning logics of public participation in AI governance  

17:00 – 18:00

ROUNDTABLE: POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS IN DATA AND AI (Room 0.06)
Dan Mcquillan (Goldsmiths, University of London), Sarah Murphy (Member of the Senedd), Rosa Curling (Foxglove), Kaelynn Narita (NoTechForTyrants). Chair: Natalie Fenton.

19:30 – 22:00

RECEPTION (Aberdare Hall)

DAY 2

9:30 – 11:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS D

RETHINKING RELATIONS OF DATA GOVERNANCE (Chair: Linnet Taylor, Room 1.06)

Tracey Lauriault (Carleton University) Indigenous data governance: Collective data justice experiences in action  
Sebastian Lehuede (Cambridge University) Friends or foes? Data sovereignty’s relation to decoloniality  
SJ Bennett (University of Edinburgh) What does relational governance mean for data collaboratives?  
Katelyn Cioffi (NYU School of Law) Beyond mitigation: Can collective rights and remedies lead to more effective recourse for digital ID-enabled harms?  
Luke Stark (University of Western Ontario) Laws of inference: Conceptual limits for automated decision-making  

DOING DATA RESEARCH (chair: Helen Kennedy, room 1.08)

Joseph Donia (University of Toronto). Fiona Webster (Western University), Jennifer Gibson and Jay Shaw (University of Toronto) Institutional ethnography and data justice: Concepts, tensions, and practical applications  
Alison Powell, Louise Hickman, Marie-Therese Png, Alexa Hagerty, Teresa Dillon, Grace Juster (JUST AI Network) Research networking as emancipatory practice: The JUST AI Network  
Andrea Medrado and Pieter Verdegem (University of Westminster) Rethinking methodological perspectives in AI research: Lessons from a South to North approach  
Rosemary Cisneros (Coventry University) When lived experience and data don’t align: Dance leadership in the UK  
Katie MacKinnon and Brittany Melton (Western University Ontario) Datafication and responsibility: A researcher’s role in thorny social media ethics

SURVEILLANCE AND PRIVACY (Chair: Stefania Milan, Room 1.09)

Dan M. Kotliar (University of Haifa) and Elinor Carmi (City University) Making surveillance kosher: How the NSO Group legitimizes its surveillance  
Mira Yaseen (King’s College London) Seeing and not seeing’: Israel’s surveillance of the Palestinians in the big data era
Gabriel Pereira (LSE) The rise of Automated Number Plate Recognition: A genealogy of an algorithmic surveillance technology  
Marie Eneman (University of Gothenburg), Marie Griffiths (University of Salford) and Rachel McLean (Liverpool John Moores University) AI surveillance: Critical insights of Clearview AI stories from Sweden and UK  
Christoph Lutz (BI Norwegian Business School), Christian Pieter Hoffmann (University of Leipzig) and Giulia Ranzini (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Privacy cynicism and agency constraints in the datafied society  

WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)

Emotional AI (EAI) in Smart Cities: What it means to live well with EAI?
(Diana Miranda, University of Stirling; Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay, Bangor University; Lachlan Urquhart, Edinburgh University)  

WORKSHOP (Room 1.05)

Meanings and Forms of Solidarity in Digital Rights Work: Workshopping the Resist and Reboot playbook  
(Siddharth de Souza, Tilburg University)  

11:00 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase)

11:15 – 12:45

PARALLEL SESSIONS E

CONCEPTUALISING DATA JUSTICE AND RESISTANCE (Chair: Lina Dencik, room 1.06)

Azadeh Akbari (University of Twente) The politics of justice in the “Data Justice” discourse  
Michael Katell, David Leslie, Cami Rincon (Turing Institute) Pluriversal data justice  
Georgia van Toorn (University of South Wales Australia) Disability, data justice, and the politics of justice talk  
Leon Salter (Massey University) The algorithmic big Other: Using Lacanian theory to think about subordination and resistance in platform work  
Veridiana Alimonti (University of São Paolo) Building knowledge and resistance in the datafied society: Perspectives from South America  

PUBLIC AWARENESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF DATA (Chair: Elinor Carmi, Room 1.08)

Sara Suárez-Gonzalo, Andrea Rosales, Francisca Morey Cortès, Mireia Fernández-
Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Who is algorithmic aware? A quantitative study of the key factors determining the level of algorithmic awareness in Spain and its limits  
Brendan Lawson (Loughborough University) Navigating a sea of data: How people determine the trustworthiness of numbers on personal messaging platforms.  
Lisa Reutter (Copenhagen University) Citizen responses to emerging public-private data flows: The case of Statistics Norway  
Martin Trans (University of Amsterdam) Datafying groceries: Consumers’ willingness to participate in loyalty programs  
Isabelle Higgins (University of Cambridge) Parental roles in the public domain: The complexities of children’s personal data and concepts of collective ‘consent’  

DATAFIED MIGRATION (Chair: Maria Kyriakidou, Room 1.09)

Kuba Jablonowski (University of Exeter) Societies of immigration control: Data doubles, status multiples, and transactional borders of Brexit Britain  
Kristin Kaltenhauser and Naja Holten Møller (University of Copenhagen) Exploring deviations from the norm: A participatory study design of outliers in asylum decision-making  
Lucy Pei (University of California) and Marisol Wong-Villacres (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Literal) The datafied coordinated response to Venezuelan migration  
Margaret Cheesman (King’s College London) Faith in FinTech? Blockchain wallets, humanitarian aid, and refugee women’s religious narratives  
Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo) Biometric markets and digital identity: A critical discourse analysis  

DATA NARRATIVES AND VISUALISATIONS (chair: Pieter Verdegem, Room 1.05)

Andrew Hamann and Roderic Crooks (University of California) Going nowhere: Liberal ideology in data visualizations for equitable transit development  
Seolha Lee, Rachel Warren, Melissa Mazmanian (University of California) Interrupting governments’ data performance: Critical reading of government data narratives as a strategy to empower communities in data-driven cities
Miranda McKee (York University and Toronto Metropolitan University) Counter-mapping COVID-19: Visual strategies and alternative imaginaries
Monika Fratczak (University of Sheffield) Mobilisation evoked by data visualizations in different national contexts  
 

WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)

Designing Participatory Data Governance (Scenario game)
(Tim Davies, Maria Luciano, Jeni Tennison, Connected By Data)  

12:45 – 13:45

LUNCH (Social Staircase)

13:45 – 15:15

KEYNOTE PLENARY 2: ALTERNATIVE COLLECTIVES (Room 0.06))
Catherine D’Ignazio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Donna Cormack (University of Otago), Carolina Botero Cabrera (Karisma). Chair: Tracey Lauriault.  

15:15 – 15:30

COFFEE BREAK (Social Staircase)

15:30 – 17:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS F

UNCERTAIN DATA ENVIRONMENTS (Chair: Fieke Jansen, Room 1.06)

Dmitry Muravyov (Delft University of Technology) Datafied doubt as an epistemic virtue: Learning from activists’ and practitioners’ perspectives  
Jedrzej Niklas (Polish Academy of Science) Datafied forests and public governance of uncertainty  
Becky Kazansky (University of Amsterdam) Refusing risk in a burning world  
Rebecca Noone (University College London) Out of thin air: Digital redlining and Google’s Air Quality Explorer  

CONSTRUCTING DATA COLLECTIVES AND IDENTITY (Chair: Emiliano Treré, Room 1.08)

Jannie Hartley (Roskilde University) Manufacturing collectives: The case of Datadriven Personalised News and collectives constructed as aggregated datapoints  
Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) ‘Prove you are human’: Interfaces for identity verification and collective resistance  
Sheng Zou (Hong Kong Baptist University) ‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: On algocratic attunement, or how to live with Automated social sorting in China in the COVID era
 
Sananda Sahoo (University of Western Ontario) Constructing the authentic citizen: The Indian government’s embrace of facial recognition technology in elections  
Isadora Dullaert (University of Edinburgh) What’s in your wallet? Linking self-sovereign identity technologies to data justice policies  
 

DATA SUBJECTIVITIES (Chair: Hannah Hamad, Room 1.09)

Daniel Arauz Nuñez (University of Western Ontario) Sensing suicide – Against digital phenotyping and the datafication of the suicidal subject  
Grace Tillyard (Goldsmiths, University of London) Context is key: The impact of data-intensive and algorithmic technologies on abortion seekers in the United States  
Bjorn Beijnon (University of Amsterdam) Datafication or (self-)exploitation? Governmentality in the age of platformisation  
Daniele Metilli (University College London), Beatrice Melis (University of Pisa), Marta Fioravanti (oio.studio) and Chiara Paolini (KU Leuven) Can you model my gender? How the Wikidata community developed a shared ontology of gender
Yuening Li and Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University) Going to the bank, on my phone: Investigating the collective experiences, social meanings, and ramifications of datafied money services  

WORKSHOP (Room 1.10A)

Evaluating Participatory and Inclusive Data Collection Guidelines
(Eliza McCullough and Jiyoo Chang, Partnership on AI)  

17:00

CONFERENCE END