Data Feminism "Chapter One: Bring Back the Bodies" (Ep. 23)
Channel: Kristi Winters
Date: 2023-12-03

Are white people & white bodies the default when data are collected and analysed? Yep. And that is a problem examined in the second episode of the Patriarchy Ruins Everything book club. We are reading and critique the book Data Feminism. This open source book is avaliable for free by clicking the button E-book at https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262358538/data-feminism/ 

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From their website.
In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.

Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.”

Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.

The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from the MIT Libraries.

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