Week 7 || Data by and for the public (Part 2)

Readings

This week, you will be doing a combination of watching, listening, and reading to prepare for discussion. There is one YouTube video, a podcast, and three chapters/articles to read.

Alex Howard, “Data Journalism in the Second Machine Age” [1:07:55]

Becoming Data: Data and Humanity (A Data & Society Podcast) Episode1 https://listen.datasociety.net/episodes/becoming-data-data-social-life

Criado-Perez, Caroline. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Abrams Press, 2019. Chapter: “One Size Fits Man” [PDF in Commons]

Guyan, Kevin. Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/queer-data-9781350230729/. Chapter: “Collecting Queer Data” [PDF in Commons]

Stevens, Nikki. 2019. “Data Set Failures and Intersectional Data.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.22148/16.041.

Writing

In a blog post of no more than 500 words, use at least 3 of the readings / recordings to make a case for the role of data journalism and its responsibility to the public.