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Community data : creative approaches to empowering people with information / Rahul Bhargava

Author
Bhargava, Rahul
Published
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Copyright Date
©2024
Physical Description
xi, 248 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Introduction. We Need a Larger Data Toolbox -- Center Impact -- Focus on Participation -- Build Mirrors, not Windows -- Create Layers of Reading -- Open many Doors -- Conclusion. Practice Popular Data.
Summary
"Community Data offers a new toolkit for data storytelling in community settings, one purpose-built for goals like inclusion, empowerment, and impact. Data visualization has spread into new domains it wasn't designed for - community organizing, education, journalism, civic governance, and more. The dominant computational methods and processes, which have not changed in response, are causing significant discriminatory and harmful impacts, documented by leading scholars across a variety of populations. Informed by fifteen years of collaborations in academic and professional settings with nonprofits and marginalized populations, Community Data articulates a new approach for aligning the processes and media of data work with social good outcomes, learning from the practices of newspapers, museums, community groups, artists, and libraries. This book introduces a community-driven framework in response to the urgent need to realign data theories and methods around justice and empowerment to avoid further replicating harmful power dynamics and ensure everyone has a seat at the table in data-centered community processes. Community Data offers a broader toolbox for working with data and presenting it, pushing beyond the limited vocabulary of surveys, spreadsheets, charts, and graphs to arts-based practices such as data murals, data sculptures, data theatre, sonification, edibilization, smellification, and beyond" --
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ISBN
9780198911630 (hardback)
0198911637
9780198911647 (adobe pdf)
9780198911654 (epub)
9780198911661
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index.
Endowment Note
Class of 1985 Endowed Book fund
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