TY - JOUR

T1 - Transparency in the rupture?

T2 - Open Data and the datafication of society

AU - Blok, Anders

AU - Courmont, Antoine

AU - Hoyng, Rolien Susanne

AU - Marquet, Clement

AU - Minor, Kelton

AU - Nold, Christian

AU - Young, Meg

PY - 2017/12/31

Y1 - 2017/12/31

N2 - This section offers a series of joint reflections on (open) data platform from a variety of cases, from cycling, traffic and mapping to activism, environment and data brokering. Data platforms play a key role in contemporary urban governance. Linked to open data initiatives, such platforms are often proposed as both mechanisms for enhancing the accountability of administrations and performing as sites for 'bottom-up' digital invention. Such promises of smooth flows of data, however, rarely materialise unproblematically. The development of data platforms is always situated in legal and administrative cultures, databases are often built according to the standards of existing digital ecologies, access always involves processes of social negotiation, and interfaces (such as sensors) may become objects of public contestation. The following contributions explore the contested and mutable character of open data platforms as part of heterogeneous publics and trace the pathways of data through different knowledge, skills, public and private configurations. They also reflect on the value of STS approaches to highlight issues and tensions as well as to shape design and governance.

AB - This section offers a series of joint reflections on (open) data platform from a variety of cases, from cycling, traffic and mapping to activism, environment and data brokering. Data platforms play a key role in contemporary urban governance. Linked to open data initiatives, such platforms are often proposed as both mechanisms for enhancing the accountability of administrations and performing as sites for 'bottom-up' digital invention. Such promises of smooth flows of data, however, rarely materialise unproblematically. The development of data platforms is always situated in legal and administrative cultures, databases are often built according to the standards of existing digital ecologies, access always involves processes of social negotiation, and interfaces (such as sensors) may become objects of public contestation. The following contributions explore the contested and mutable character of open data platforms as part of heterogeneous publics and trace the pathways of data through different knowledge, skills, public and private configurations. They also reflect on the value of STS approaches to highlight issues and tensions as well as to shape design and governance.

KW - data platforms

KW - data labour and reuse

KW - environmental sensors

KW - urban governance

KW - transparency

M3 - Journal article

VL - 8

JO - Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies

JF - Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies

IS - 2

ER -