Citizens’ media meets big data: the emergence of data activism
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Big data presents citizens with new challenges and opportunities. ‘Data activism’ practices emerge at the intersection of the social and techsnological dimension of human action, whereby citizens take a critical approach to big data, and appropriate and manipulate data for advocacy and social change. This theoretical article explores the emergence of data activism as an empirical reality and a heuristic tool to study how people engage politically with big data. We ground the concept on a multidisciplinary literature review, and offer a situated definition of data activism and a tentative agenda for its study. We argue that data activism represents a new form of citizens’ media that has a critical approach to big data at its core.
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