[Air-L] new blog: COVID-19 from the margins

[Stefania Milan]

Dear AoiR friends and colleagues
We hope this finds you and your loved one safe and well in this strange 
times.

**apologies for cross-posting, but we need your help to spread the word**

Data are at the core of the narration of the pandemic. Numbers affect 
our ability to care, share empathy, and donate to relief efforts and 
emergency services. Numbers are the condition of existence of the 
problem, and of a country or given social reality on the global map of 
concerns. Yet most countries from the so-called Global South are 
virtually absent from this number-based narration of the pandemic, and 
so are many invisible populations like migrants. Why, and with what 
consequences? To answer this and many other pressing questions, we have 
launched a new collaborative space: COVID-19 from the margins.

The multilingual blog COVID-19 from the margins [0] invites 
contributions reflecting on the first pandemic of the datafied society 
as it intersects situations of marginality, inequality, alterity, 
poverty but also resistance and subversion.

We are particularly happy to announce that thanks to the support of the 
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam), we are 
currently able to ***offer a small compensation to authors of accepted 
blog posts*** who are in precarious job conditions, are students or 
unemployed, and/or from the Global South. Requests will be evaluated on 
a case-by-case basis.
To contribute visit [1] for English and [2] for Spanish. Any other 
language accepted!

So far the blog features articles on the widening data divide in the 
global South, the perils of biometric social welfare during lockdowns, 
invisibilized populations (e.g. migrants) in the European continent, the 
privacy hurdles of newly adopted contact tracing app in India. More are 
on the way.

This blog is part of the Big Data from the South Research Initiative 
[3]. It is funded byAmsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, the School of 
Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University and the European 
Research Council (through the DATACTIVE project).

Best & stay safe... and help us spread the word!

the editorial crew--Emiliano Treré (Cardiff University), Silvia Masiero 
(Loughborough University) & Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)


[0] https://data-activism.net/blog-covid-19-from-the-margins/

[1]https://data-activism.net/2020/05/how-to-contribute-to-covid-19-from-the-margins/

[2] 
https://data-activism.net/2020/05/como-colaborar-en-covid-19-from-the-margins/

[3] https://data-activism.net/publications/big-data-from-the-south/