Milan, Stefania and Treré, Emiliano  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2496-4571
2024.
Against decolonial reductionism: The impact of Latin American thinking on the data decolonization project.
Big Data and Society
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10.1177/20539517241270694
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Abstract
This essay argues that Latin American scholarship and movement practice are key to understanding the dynamics of the datafied society and countering its inequities. Examining the sources of inspiration of a frontrunner seeking to decolonize the datafied society – the Big Data from the South Initiative (BigDataSur) – we review Martín-Barbero’s ontological shift from media to mediations, Freire’s methodology centring individual agency and empowerment as a structural task of society, Mignolo’s invite to take decoloniality as a praxis rather than merely an idea, Rodríguez’s first-hand engagement with tech�nology at the margins, Escobar’s autonomous design for the pluriverse, and the critical ecology of eco-social movements. We engage with a new generation of Latin American thinkers who turn their gaze to core problems of today’s systems of knowledge production, be they media or academia. Learning from these scholars, we warn against decolonial reduction�ism, namely the trend to evoke decolonial ideas and theories without fully committing to putting them into practice. We maintain that to decolonize datafication, we ought to also change how we generate knowledge about the datafied society. We outline three practical strategies that foster an open-ended dialogue on alternative approaches to datafication and scientific practice: multilingualism, public scholarship, and mentorship
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Journalism, Media and Culture |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| ISSN: | 2053-9517 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 2 July 2024 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 22 June 2024 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2025 14:01 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170102 |
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