"Research data management has become an inevitable part of research, and both funding agencies and publishers nowadays require open and reusable data. This article focuses on one of the most prominent initiatives promoting reusability of research data – the FAIR guiding principles – nowadays widely accepted as the new standard for research data management. Through semi-structured interviews, we investigated researchers’ experiences of practicing FAIR research data management within the context of a multi-stakeholder project within the field of health research funded by the European Commission. Our analysis showed that the informants’ experiences of practicing FAIR research data management differed largely depending on which scientific tradition they belonged to; something that previous studies have attributed to shortcomings in the current infrastructure, lack of resources and persistent cultures around data sharing in the wider scientific community. Drawing on previous work presented within the field of Critical Data Studies (CDS), we argue that our findings point to a more fundamental problem; namely the failure to recognize that the FAIR framework is built on a positivist conceptualization of data. We argue that if FAIR is to have any chance of succeeding in its ambitions to be as inclusive and all-encompassing as it wants to be, these insights need to be taken more into account and provide some potential pathways."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251349157

Just heard a great talk (“Borderland Circuitry: How Racist Gang Profiling on the Street Becomes Hard Data and Enables Land Destruction”) by Ana Muñiz

Book is here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/borderland-circuitry/paper

I wrote a book on #education about #datafication:

"Critical Datafication Literacy. A Framework and Practical Approaches" is available #OpenAccess:
https://transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7378-4

It includes:
Analysis of critical data literacies & established education theories
Examination of online #CriticalDataLiteracy tools
Development of critical datafication literacy framework
Pedagogical & design strategies for critical education about datafication

I have an article, “Ghost Ships,” in the new issue of Logic. It’s about why global shipping runs on paper, the gold rush to change that, and the Middle Passage. I believe it’ll be available openly at some point, but you can buy it in print or digitally now: https://logicmag.io/pivot/ #criticallogistics #criticainfrastructure #logistics #criticaldatastudies

Re-introducing myself as more folks come to Mastodon.

I study health and other inequities, especially how technologies and media shape them.

#Introduction post! I’m a #librarian at Ohio State, interested in #academiclibraries, #medialiteracy, #informationliteracy, #openpedagogy, #qualitative methods, and #criticaldatastudies. Also: #politics, #yoga, #running, movies & tv, #vegan cooking, reading, travel. Expect posts about #LIS and #academia but also #realhousewives.