Tag: data feminism
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Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (D’Ignazio, 2024)
What isn’t counted doesn’t count. And dominant institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-based murder of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. In the face of this failure, Counting Feminicide foregrounds the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting these kinds of murders and challenging the reigning logic…
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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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Human-Centered Computing and Feminicide Counterdata Science (D’Ignazio, 2023)
Data about feminicide can be conceived as missing data – data that are neglected by authorities and underreported in official registries. Activists and civil society groups in Latin America and beyond are increasingly stepping into these gendered data gaps to undertake feminist counterdata science – an explicit challenge to the inadequate data practices of governments…
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Feminicide and counterdata production. A conversation with FAIR
Feminicide and counterdata production. A conversation between the DCF team and the Feminist AI Research Network (FAIR). ILDA, Data + Feminism Lab, Feminicidio Uruguay, Tierra Común, & Feminista AI Research Network (Producers). (2022, agosto 9). Feminicidio y la producción de contradatos [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhu8mBoBvXs
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Towards Intersectional Feminist and Participatory ML: A Case Study in Supporting Feminicide Counterdata Collection (Suresh et al, 2022)
Data ethics and fairness have emerged as important areas of research in recent years. However, much work in this area focuses on retroactively auditing and “mitigating bias” in existing, potentially flawed systems, without interrogating the deeper structural inequalities underlying them. There are not yet examples of how to apply feminist and participatory methodologies from the…
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News as Data for Activists: a case study in feminicide counterdata production (Bhargava et al, 2022)
Bhargava, R., Suresh, H., & Doğan, A. L. (2022). News as Data for Activists: A case study in feminicide counterdata production. 5. https://github.com/browninstitute/c-plus-j-website/raw/main/proceedings/Session9Group2.pdf News articles are an important source of data for recording and aggregating a range of social phenomena. In this paper, we ask if and how technology can support civil society activists who…