Full Description
Critical Perspectives on Data Access for Research provides a rich and interdisciplinary critique on regulation that opens the 'black box' of technology companies to researchers. It brings together scholars from across the globe, working in varied fields including critical legal studies, science and technology studies, critical data studies and digital humanities. The book explores questions of data access - to acquire and use data meaningfully as well as resist power. It covers a variety of themes, including the opportunities and challenges of the law as a tool for observing digital infrastructures, political economy of data access for research and the power dynamics between academia, private/public sector, and civil society. In doing so, the book also examines these questions in terms of the politics of knowledge production, discussing if there is a privileging of geographical and institutional contexts in data access regimes. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Many Faces of Academia's Data Access to Digital Infrastructures Jef Ausloos and Siddharth Peter de Souza; Part I. Imaginations: 1. Re-Conceptualizing Governance Policies on Data Access for Research Carolina Aguerre; 2. Violent Plains: Challenges and Strategies for Pastoralists' Data Access in Ghana Frank Kwaku Agyei, Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey, Paul Osei-Tutu and Boateng Kyereh; 3. From Rights to Skills Midas Nouwens and Pablo R. Velasco; Part II. Limitations: 4. The Distributive Effects of Seeing: A Cautionary Tale from the Early-Twentieth-Century Film Industry Brenda Dvoskin; 5. Keys Thrown Away? Challenges in Brazil on Accessing Public-Interest Data on State Surveillance Tools via Transparency Portals and Requests for Information André Ramiro, Pedro Amaral, and Marcos César M. Pereira; 6. Digging into EU Data Laws and Their Impact on African Researchers Paul Esselaar; 7. Denied by Design? Data Access Rights in Encrypted Infrastructures Michael Veale; Part III. Promises: 8. A Subject Access Request, Then What? (Un)structuring Online Analytics for Data Institutions Jake Stein and Reuben Binns; 9. Data Intermediaries for Good: Can Data Intermediation Services Help Data Access in Research? Matteo Nebbiai; 10. Paving the Way for the Right to Research Platform Data in the Digital Services Act Aline Iramina, Maayan Perel, and Niva Elkin-Koren; 11. Access to Data on Disinformation within the Code of Practice on Disinformation Michalina Kowala; About the Contributors; Index.
