Author: Violeta Belver
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Feminicide and counterdata production: Activist efforts to monitor and challenge gender-related violence (D’Ignazio et al, 2022)
Gender-based violence against women and its lethal consequence, femicide, are a serious problem worldwide. Official government data on gender-based violence and femicide are often absent, incomplete, infrequently updated, and contested. We draw on data feminism to situate femicide data as missing data. Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study analyzes the informatics work of ten activist…
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MISSING DATA (Jungs de Almeida et al, 2024)
This article explores the concept of “missing data” from a political and social perspective, rather than merely a technical one. While traditional definitions of missing data typically refer to information that is literally missing or incomplete, the approach taken here, aligned with artist and educator Mimi Ọnụọha, considers missing data as that which does not…
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Data Against Feminicide: The Process and Impact of Codesigning Digital Research Tools (Suárez Val et al, 2024)
Data Against Feminicide is an action research collaboration that aims to foster an international community of practice around femicide data. In this chapter, we introduce two tools we have co-designed and tested with activists to facilitate their work and ease the burdens on their workflow. Data Against Feminicide Email Alerts is an artificial intelligence-based system that detects…
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Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide (D’Ignazio et al, 2024)
Feminicide is the murder of cisgender and transgender women and girls for gender-related reasons. It reflects systems of patriarchal and racialized oppression and reveals how territories and socioeconomic landscapes shape everyday gender-based violence. In recent decades, many community data production initiatives have emerged with the goal of monitoring this extreme yet often invisible phenomenon. We…