With research partners, I analyze the contexts leading to and resulting from missing information in official and grassroots datasets on police brutality and vulnerable information in environmental racism in official and grassroots datasets. In tandem with these analyses, my collaborative work endeavors have focused on issues of missing and vulnerable information, is paired with the political project of locating epistemic burden in the processes and outcomes of these information systems. Epistemic burden is drawn from social and feminist epistemology, political economy, and cultural studies to describe how researchers commonly treat “community-engaged research” as an extractive transaction in which community members’ lived experience, needs, and desires, are regarded simply as data to justify building a technical system, not as valued partners whose needs and desires should guide and determine research. Researcher extraction of community knowledge, time, energy, and other resources means that the community has less of these to focus on internal, completely self-determined work.
EPISTEMIC BURDEN
Paris, B., Pierre, J., Currie, M.,Pasquetto, I. (Forthcoming, 2022). “Data Burdens: Epistemologies of Evidence in Police Reform and Abolition Movements,” eds. Currie, M., Callum, M., and Knox, J. Data Justice and the Right to the City, University of Edinburgh Press: Edinburgh.
Pierre, J., Crooks, R., Currie, M., Paris, B., & Pasquetto, I. (May, 2021). “Getting Ourselves Together: Epistemic Burden and Data-centered Participatory Design Research”, ACM, CHI 2021, Yokohama, Japan (Remote). Received Best Paper Award: Top 1% of Reviewed Papers. https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3411764.3445103
Paris B., Pierre J. (January, 2017). Naming Experience: Registering Resistance and Mobilizing Change with Qualitative Tools. InterActions Journal of Education and Information Studies Vol. 13, No. 1.
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/02d9w4qd
Pierre, J., Crooks, R., Currie, M., Paris, B., & Pasquetto, I. (May, 2021). “Getting Ourselves Together: Epistemic Burden and Data-centered Participatory Design Research”, ACM, CHI 2021, Yokohama, Japan (Remote). Received Best Paper Award: Top 1% of Reviewed Papers. https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3411764.3445103
Paris B., Pierre J. (January, 2017). Naming Experience: Registering Resistance and Mobilizing Change with Qualitative Tools. InterActions Journal of Education and Information Studies Vol. 13, No. 1.
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/02d9w4qd
VULNERABLE DATA: ENVIRONMENTAL DATA GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE
Currie, M., Paris, B. and Donovan, J. (September, 2019). "What difference do data make? Data management and social change", Online Information Review, 43 (6). 971-985. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02-2018-0052
Currie, M., Paris, B. (June, 2018). Back-ups for the Future: Archival Practices for Data Activism. Archives and Manuscripts Vol. 46, No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273
Currie, M., Donovan, J., and Paris, B. (2018). "Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving." eds. Data Science Landscape: Towards Research Standards and Protocols. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7515-5_5
Currie, M., Paris, B. (June, 2018). Back-ups for the Future: Archival Practices for Data Activism. Archives and Manuscripts Vol. 46, No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1468273
Currie, M., Donovan, J., and Paris, B. (2018). "Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving." eds. Data Science Landscape: Towards Research Standards and Protocols. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-7515-5_5
MISSING DATA: THE POLICE OFFICER-INVOLVED HOMICIDE PROJECT
Britt Paris, Morgan Currie, Irene Pasquetto and Jen Pierre
Developed this website for the Hackathon and other outward facing components of the project.
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Co-wrote a paper on our project's methods, outcomes and implications, published in Big Data + Society.
Presented this preliminary research paper at iConference, 2015—published in iConference proceedings. |