Over the last couple of weeks, I have been conducting a scoping review of data in the home. It has…
How did we get here? Notes on Orit Halpern’s Beautiful Data (part 1)
Our contemporary media environments were not technically determined; aesthetic practices were central to the production of the condition of possibility…
Data Smart Kids program in the news
As explained in an earlier blog post, the Materialising Data project was designed to extend upon findings from the Data…
Materialising the implications of data: The Digital Defense Playbook
Recently, I’ve been reviewing critical data education programs paying particular attention to the ways data is materialized as an object…
Adapting Dourish & Mazmanian’s conceptualisations of digital information to the materialising data project
In their 2011 article, Dourish and Mazmanian argue the information age marks a key shift from material objects to their…
Keyword: MATERIALITY
Data is often thought of as immaterial – devoid of physical properties and without a tangible form. Imagined as immaterial,…
Mimi Onuoha – The Library of Missing Datasets
“When you look into them, you start to realize that they almost universally intersect with the interests of the most…
A note on keywords
Every word which I have included has at some time, in the course of the argument, virtually forced itself on…
Keyword: DATA
Data are imagined and enunciated against the seamlessness of phenomena (Gitelman, 2013, p.2). Data is a word used across most…
new ways of understanding digital data 