Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-21DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0030
J. Gray, Liliana Bounegru
{"title":"What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism","authors":"J. Gray, Liliana Bounegru","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"How and when might data journalism be viewed as a form of “data activism”? Data activism has been conceptualised as a set of practices which “interrogate the fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication”, including through resisting surveillance and mobilising data to denounce injustice and advocate for change (Milan and van der Velden, 2016). In this chapter we examine how data journalist practices might serve not just to reinforce and reify dominant regimes of datafication, but also to interrogate them and make space for public involvement and intervention around data infrastructures. We examine three ways in which such practices may be construed as interventions around datafication: (1) assembling data publics; (2) making data differently; and (3) investigating datafication. Attending to such practices may contribute to the understanding of emerging sites, objects and action repertoires of data activism.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121592966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-21DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0001
H. Southall, Jeff Evans, S. Ruane
{"title":"General introduction","authors":"H. Southall, Jeff Evans, S. Ruane","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This book is the third in a series of critical reflections on the state of statistics supported by the Radical Statistics Group, following on from Demystifying Social Statistics (Irvine et al, 1979) and Statistics in Society (Dorling and Simpson, 1999). Both earlier books were mainly concerned with UK official statistics, as tools for understanding and sometimes changing the economy and society. In the 20 years since ...","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"130 21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114580437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-21DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0031
{"title":"Epilogue: progressive ways ahead","authors":"","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0031","url":null,"abstract":"How can our society’s relationship with its data be improved? Our authors offer many pointers to the way ahead. We hope this book will make you better informed, but also help you develop types of action appropriate to your situation as you see it, as an active citizen....","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126228751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-21DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0013
C. Deeming, R. Johnston
{"title":"From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state","authors":"C. Deeming, R. Johnston","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"All of the advanced societies must provide their citizens with protection against risk in order to secure continued economic and political stability. In Britain, we have seen a major shift in attitudes towards government and its role in providing social security. Unemployed people are now seen as less ‘deserving’ of welfare, as solidarity with unemployed workers has declined in the context of relatively low levels of unemployment and a public that has become more ‘workfarist’ and less ‘welfarist’ as labour market related risks are increasingly privatized. Here we examine the transfer of political ideas influencing public opinion and policy agendas, and ‘thermostatic’ (Wlezien 1995) theories of state transformation and cross-national attitudes. For this we draw on the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) data over a 32 year period, and successive waves of International Social Survey Programme’s (ISSP) Role of Government (RoG) module for the comparative study of Western welfare state attitudes covering a 31 year period.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121484170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-21DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0014
S. Ruane
{"title":"Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability","authors":"S. Ruane","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Recent decades, shaped by powerful neoliberal forces, have witnessed a significant encroachment on the UK state sector with privatisation advancing over many social and economic sectors. The extension of private sector involvement has implications for the effective public accountability of UK ‘public’ services. This chapter examines, through case studies drawn from the past ten or fifteen years, selected aspects of this diminished accountability. The three case studies concern the availability of data in relation to different dimensions of privatisation in the NHS: performance data in the provision of care when NHS-funded care is provided by private companies; financial and ownership details in infrastructure procurement; and technical data allowing an assessment of the character and implications of proposals in the policy process.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121346104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-21DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0020
Anonymous
{"title":"Health divides","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter highlights some of the challenges associated with the framing and measurement of unjust and preventable differences in health. Some of these are statistical challenges, such as the need for sufficiently large samples to capture the experiences of small groups of interest in the population, and the need to appreciate the strengths and limitations of different ways of measuring outcomes between groups. Other challenges relate to how the measures and language used can impact on the communities or groups of people whose health is being described, or how the framing of analyses can shape the responses proposed to address health inequalities. It presents selected statistics illustrating inequalities in physical health outcomes and risks at three broad life stages: infancy and childhood, adolescence, and middle to later life. It mainly presents socio-economic inequalities, largely due to data gaps for other important measures. The implications of these gaps, and potential ways to address them, are considered.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127163184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.11
I. Shepherd, G. Hearne
{"title":"Data analytics","authors":"I. Shepherd, G. Hearne","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.11","url":null,"abstract":"Data analytics have emerged in recent years as a family of overlapping, competing and hybridising products and practices. They have been championed by technology companies, academics, business users and governments alike, and in a short period of time have earned business developers and adopters billions of pounds in revenue and unprecedented levels of market domination. Data analytics have also provided distinct benefits in terms of an increasing democratisation of digital tools, but at the same time are giving rise to increasing levels of societal and governmental concern. This chapter has four aims: to help intelligent outsiders and old school data analysts make sense of the many competing methodologies and technologies that inhabit the data analytics ecosystem; to assist readers understand which of the many techniques and methodologies represent genuine additions to the state of the art rather than simply old wine in new bottles; to provide a brief overview of the software tools currently available for data analytics; and to identify societal issues and concerns that attend this family of technical and social practices, and the extent to which they are being adequately addressed by developers, users and society at large.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128326390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.17
R. Murphy
{"title":"Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows","authors":"R. Murphy","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.17","url":null,"abstract":"Multinational corporation tax avoidance is primarily about tax avoidance. That is, recording transactions in ways that are legal but which might not meet with the approval of the all the tax authorities who might be impacted by the way in which transactions are recorded are reported. This is most especially true of many transactions involving tax havens. The problem with tracing transactions recorded in these places has, however, been locating any data on them because if the accounting opacity that they create, which is also permitted by existing accounting standards for multinational corporations. Country-by-country reporting was created to tackle this opacity head-on by requiring that all large corporations report all their transactions wherever they might arise. The result could be far greater information on the illicit financial flows of major companies, or their potential elimination.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134432328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}