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<h3 class="date">March 1 2017</h3>
<h1 class="title">Data activism as a ongoing civic enactive critique on Big Data and software user/developer divides</h1>
<h2 class="author">Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas</h2>
<p class="affilation"><em>mutabiT / HackBo</em></p>
<h2 class="author">Carlos Barreneche</h2>
<p class="affilation"><em>Javeriana University</em></p>
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<p class="small"><strong>Abstract: </strong><em><p>This presentation explores ongoing data activism practices (Milan & Gutiérrez, <span class="citation">(2015)</span>; Shrock, 2016) and the prototypyng of tools and infrastructural alternatives to Big Data in the context of a hackerspace in Bogota (Colombia) and a PhD research on design and creation. We will present the case of a periodic hackathon/workshop event (The Data Week) engaging diverse concerns and communities (journalists, (h)ac(k)tivists, teachers, students, researchers, novices) and its companion development of a so-called "pocket" infrastructure (Grafoscopio <span class="citation">(Luna Cárdenas 2014)</span>). Though these experiences, draw on long standing practices in the hacker Free Libre Open Source (FLOSS) community, the presentation will frame them also as experiments in (digital) citizenship (Isin & Ruppert, 2015 ) through critical making <span class="citation">(Ratto 2011)</span>, as they aim to amplify civic voices and enable public participation. We will focus particularly on some projects involving data visualization and storytelling in the cases of politicians discourse on Twitter. Such projects addresses people’s needs and capacities in the Global South in order to overcome infrastructural limitations to civic engagement through data. In order to do so, the Data Week and Grafoscopio deploy the alternative framework of frictionless data <span class="citation">(Pollock 2013)</span>, moldable tools <span class="citation">(Girba, Chis, and Niertrasz 2014)</span>, pocket infrastructures, computational narratives <span class="citation">(Perez and Granger 2015)</span>, data activism, agile visualization <span class="citation">(Bergel 2016)</span>, and grassroots innovation. This approach, we will argue, represents a means to enable an enactive critique to exclusionary divides: "Big Data" <span class="citation">(Andrejevic 2014)</span>, software user/ software developer <span class="citation">(Maxwell 2006)</span> that also engages in productive dialogues with other critical discourses (decoloniality and femininist data visualization <span class="citation">(D’Ignazio and Klein 2016)</span> approaches).</p></em></p>
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