In a period of profound and rapid changes, there are among them the crisis of democratic institutions and the rise of data-driven technologies which are becoming an intrinsic part of our lives. The world we live in is increasingly interconnected, even though this is also exacerbating profound asymmetries between those who own the power to use data, and those who are subjected to it. Data can be a tool that enables new ways of interacting and collaborating, or it can be used to oppress, invade people’s privacy, and foster discrimination. The feminist theories that have been analysed are the theoretical framework to examine how knowledge is produced, and systems of power reproduced and embedded in data-driven technologies. These theories, along with critical data studies and critical design, are the keys to understand how to increase people’s agency, emancipation, empowerment, and self-determination. In a democracy of agonistic pluralism, political questions require to decide between valid and conflicting alternatives. These alternatives can be constructed with data practice reassembled in light of intersectional feminist perspectives, critical data studies and other theories. This research has been a foundation for the metadesign of transdisciplinary data practices in third spaces that are imagined as the crossbreeding of feminist hacker and maker spaces.
In un’epoca di profondi e rapidi cambiamenti, tra questi la crisi delle istituzioni democratiche e l’incremento delle tecnologie guidate dai dati che stanno diventando sempre più essenziali alle nostre vite. Il mondo in cui viviamo è sempre più interconnesso, e questo ha comportato anche l’aumento di disparità, tra coloro che governano i dati e coloro che ne sono assoggettati. I dati, da una parte possono essere uno strumento per creare nuovi modi di interazione e collaborazione, dall’altra uno strumento di oppressione, per violare la privacy delle persone, o per incentivare le discriminazioni. Le teorie femministe analizzate nella ricerca, sono gli strumenti teorici attraverso le quali si esaminano come viene prodotta la conoscenza e come si riproducono i sistemi di potere all’interno delle tecnologie guidate dai dati. Queste teorie, insieme ai critical data studies e al critical design, rappresentano elementi fondamentali per capire come aumentare l’emancipazione, l’agency e l’autodeterminazione delle persone. In una democrazia secondo il modello di pluralismo agonistico, le questioni politiche richiedono di decidere tra alternative valide e in conflitto tra loro. Queste alternative possono essere costruite con delle pratiche dei dati riconfigurate alla luce delle prospettive femministe intersezionali, degli studi critici sui dati e di altre teorie. Questa ricerca è fondamentale per il metaprogetto di pratiche transdisciplinari che fanno uso dei dati, in di spazi comunitari immaginati come incroci tra hackerspace e makerspace femministi.
Mhacking change. Intersectional feminist perspectives for the metadesign of transdisciplinary data practices in third spaces
DEL NERO, ALESSANDRA
2017/2018
Abstract
In a period of profound and rapid changes, there are among them the crisis of democratic institutions and the rise of data-driven technologies which are becoming an intrinsic part of our lives. The world we live in is increasingly interconnected, even though this is also exacerbating profound asymmetries between those who own the power to use data, and those who are subjected to it. Data can be a tool that enables new ways of interacting and collaborating, or it can be used to oppress, invade people’s privacy, and foster discrimination. The feminist theories that have been analysed are the theoretical framework to examine how knowledge is produced, and systems of power reproduced and embedded in data-driven technologies. These theories, along with critical data studies and critical design, are the keys to understand how to increase people’s agency, emancipation, empowerment, and self-determination. In a democracy of agonistic pluralism, political questions require to decide between valid and conflicting alternatives. These alternatives can be constructed with data practice reassembled in light of intersectional feminist perspectives, critical data studies and other theories. This research has been a foundation for the metadesign of transdisciplinary data practices in third spaces that are imagined as the crossbreeding of feminist hacker and maker spaces.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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