Tag: digital tools

News as Data for Activists: a case study in feminicide counterdata production (Bhargava et al, 2022)

Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle

| artificial intelligence, counterdata, data feminism, digital tools, media coverage, publications

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…
Feminicide & Machine learning: Detecting Gender-based Violence to Strengthen Civil Sector Activism (D’Ignazio et al, 2020)

Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle, Uncategorized

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Gender-related violence against women and its lethal outcome, feminicide, are a serious problem in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as they are in the rest of the world. Although governments have passed legislation criminalizing feminicide, these laws have not been accompanied by relevant policy nor by robust data collection that measures the scope and…