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Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech
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TY - CONF
T1 - Online vs offline inequality
T2 - European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
AU - Thomas, Vanessa
PY - 2017/11/16
Y1 - 2017/11/16
N2 - In this talk, I explain why I believe that computational social science and (online) open data can expose, reproduce, and transpose (offline) infrastructural inequalities related to disability. To make this point, I draw on the first phase of a multi-stage, mixed methods research project that centres around a “public washrooms” dataset released by the City of Vancouver. I discuss how, in this case, open data can: be used to expose gaps in infrastructural services for wheelchair users; reproduce disableism by providing misleading or inaccurate data, and; transpose disableism from (offline) infrastructural and resource deficits into (online) informational deficits, which then also influence (offline) engagement with urban environments.
AB - In this talk, I explain why I believe that computational social science and (online) open data can expose, reproduce, and transpose (offline) infrastructural inequalities related to disability. To make this point, I draw on the first phase of a multi-stage, mixed methods research project that centres around a “public washrooms” dataset released by the City of Vancouver. I discuss how, in this case, open data can: be used to expose gaps in infrastructural services for wheelchair users; reproduce disableism by providing misleading or inaccurate data, and; transpose disableism from (offline) infrastructural and resource deficits into (online) informational deficits, which then also influence (offline) engagement with urban environments.
M3 - Speech
Y2 - 15 November 2017 through 17 November 2017
ER -