[Air-L] REMINDER - Re: CfP: Making a Difference! Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society
Tracey P. Lauriault
tlauriau at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 10:26:11 PDT 2021
Mirko and I are just sending a reminder! Hope you are all well.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 5:18 AM Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is a call for contributions to a book covering socially engaged and
> practice-based research in critical data studies. If your work is shaping
> data practices, advancing data literacies, and constituting accountability
> for a fair, transparent, and open digital society. We would like to hear
> from you.
>
> Cheers,
> mirko and Tracey
>
>
> OA Book Call for Contributions:
>
> Making a Difference!
> Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society
>
> Background:
>
> Schäfer and Lauriault are critical, theoretical and practice based
> scholars who do data work within and beyond the academy. While doing so
> they have experienced the tension between the expectations of traditional
> forms of scholarly funded research, and doing novel forms of socially
> relevant empirical work. This rewarding research is engaged, and often
> involves relationship building with partners from government, the private
> sector and civil society. This also requires relationship building, time,
> learning by doing, and knowledge mobilization often at odds with the
> publish or perish model.
>
> They want to hear from others whose research practices actually make a
> difference in the datafied society. This edited book Making a Difference!
> Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society invites scholars,
> instructors, practitioners and professionals in academia, government, the
> private sector and civil society who do the same and want to share their
> critical, participatory and entrepreneurial data work to improve social and
> material outcomes, and create systems that are fair, accountable and
> transparent.
>
> Making a Difference! also matters in the classroom, especially with
> students at different stages in their academic and professional life
> trajectories who seek impactful and meaningful learning opportunities. This
> is also true in boardrooms, as there is also the call for evidence-informed
> decision making and for responsible data practices. It has proven difficult
> for many however to balance the traditional mission of the university and
> the desire to have a positive impact on society. This is especially the
> case when doing data work with practitioners, administrators and
> professionals. Some in the university are adapting and evolving their
> research practices in unique and interesting ways, others are doing
> critical research outside the academy, and some are doing both. We want to
> hear how you address these challenges.
>
> Making a Difference! will feature bold ideas from researchers,
> practitioners, designers, and instructors who have developed collaborative
> ways of doing critically informed data work. This may include digital
> methods and analytical approaches to conduct joint projects with
> government, media, corporations, and civil society partners. This work may
> be funded by both traditional and novel forms of financial arrangements.
> This direct engagement with external partners often connects research
> agendas to address urgent societal needs, which often allows students to
> incubate new ideas and create new occupations. In addition to reconfiguring
> relationships with practitioners, entrepreneurially minded scholars have
> maintained independence while producing rigorous and critical research.
> These emerging and mutually beneficial approaches to doing critically
> informed data work increasingly recognize team efforts, transdisciplinary
> cooperation, and entrepreneurial skills that have made difference.
>
> Chapters for this OA book will be between 3000-8000 words and will be
> organized into the following broad areas:
>
> * Theoretically informed applied research;
>
> * Methodological approaches to doing engaged and participatory
> research;
>
> * Transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral research projects;
>
> * Case studies (may be shorter chapters 3000-4000 words);
>
> * Novel pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning (3000-4000
> words);
>
> * Position statements that identify pressing challenges about doing
> this type of critically informed data work (could also be shorter chapters
> 3000-5000 words).
>
> The following is a list of potential topic areas:
>
> * Action, engaged, and participatory scholarship and research
>
> * Entrepreneurial research (as an example see this video<
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKk1kYgDHk>)
>
> * Socially transformative interdisciplinary collaborations
>
> * Multi-sectoral team-based collaborations
>
> * Applied basic research and practices from STEAM disciplines, in the
> humanities, social and/or natural sciences, data science, HCI, etc.
>
> * Academic-community knowledge transfer
>
> * Co-creation, co-design and forms of public engagement
>
> * Citizen science, crowdsourcing, and open data
>
> * Engaged pedagogical approaches, community partners in the classroom;
> multi-purpose assignments, and etc.
>
> * Maintaining impartiality, autonomy and research integrity with
> private funding
>
> * Scholars as experts, practitioner, and as academics
>
> * Impact measurers, metrics, indicators, and theory of change
>
> * Data practices that address equity & inclusion and anti racism,
> sexism, LGBTQ, ableism, Indigenous issues, labour, etc.
>
> * Other issues that arise from AI/ML, data infrastructures, systems,
> and technologies through these novel forms of conducting research
>
> * Suggest an idea!
>
> Making a Difference! Will be organized as follows.
>
> 1. Theoretical Approaches about doing critically informed
> transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral data work that challenge traditional
> humanities and social science scholarship
>
> In this section chapters (3000-8000 words) contextualize emergent forms of
> engaged scholarship through in-depth theoretical reflections about how to
> transform the academic status quo in terms of research and pedagogy. Here
> we also imagine chapters that might include methodological and pedagogical
> approaches.
>
> 2. Case Studies about Doing Critically Engaged Data Work
>
> Chapters here might be shorter (3000-5000 words) and include one or more
> case studies that apply theory and describe novel approaches to engaged
> research, teaching and collaboration. We are particularly interested in
> contributions that track a project’s societal impact, and that emphasize
> how challenges to traditional forms of university research have been
> overcome, including those encountered by those outside the academy working
> with scholars.
>
> 3. Position Papers on Pressing Challenges
>
> Chapters here might address practical solutions to the challenges imposed
> by the transformation of the academy and societal needs for critically
> engaged data work. Authors would take a position on productive paths
> forward on topics such as (but not limited to) obtaining funding, ensuring
> research integrity, awarding recognition, avoiding cooptation, implementing
> new metrics, creating incentives, conducting open access and open data
> research, and conceptualizing new roles for researchers and students.
>
> About the editors:
>
> Mirko Tobias Schäfer is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, and
> a co-founder of the Utrecht Data School<https://dataschool.nl/en/>.
> m.t.schaefer at uu.nl<mailto:m.t.schaefer at uu.nl>
>
> Tracey P. Lauriault<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738> is Associate
> Professor of Critical Media and Big Data, School of Journalism and
> Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
> Tracey.Lauriault at Carleton.ca
>
> Contributions:
>
> We seek contributions from scholars, instructors, practitioners and
> professionals in academia, government, the private sector and civil society.
>
> We hope to receive works from any of the following: geography,
> anthropology, media studies, communication, journalism, organizational
> studies, business, public administration, sociology, social work, gender
> studies, criminology, philosophy, digital humanities, HCI, data science and
> others that do critically engaged data work for an open access book
> entitled Making a Difference! Novel Research Practices in the Datafied
> Society to be published by Amsterdam University Press by the spring of 2022.
>
> Submission Instructions:
>
> Please send a 250 word abstract proposal by August 13th, 2021 to both
> Mirko Schäfer, M.T. <m.t.schaefer at uu.nl<mailto:m.t.schaefer at uu.nl>> and
> Tracey P. Lauriault <Tracey.Lauriault at Carleton.ca<mailto:
> Tracey.Lauriault at Carleton.ca>>.
>
> In the subject line of your email, include:
>
> * Making a Difference!
>
> In the body of your email include:
>
> * Chapter title
>
> * Section you are submitting to
>
> * Section 1: Theoretical approaches;
>
> * Section 2: Case studies; or
>
> * Section 3: Position papers.
>
> * 250 word abstract
>
> * Name of author(s), title(s), institution(s), & email addresses.
>
> * We will send out confirmations by August 30th, 2021
>
> * First drafts are expected by November 30, 2021.
>
> https://dataschool.nl/en/news/oa-book-call-for-contributions/
>
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Tracey P. Lauriault
Associate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data
Communication and Media Studies
School of Journalism and Communication
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738
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