Can civic data be counterdata and open data? Exploring the limits of data, contestation and governance

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dc.contributor.authorShibuya, Yuya
dc.contributor.authorOlojo, Seyi
dc.contributor.authorHamm, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorKrishnan, Radhika
dc.contributor.authorPargman, Teresa Cerratto
dc.contributor.editorKox, Thomas
dc.contributor.editorUllrich, André
dc.contributor.editorZech, Herbert
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-31T13:51:13Z
dc.date.available2025-03-31T13:51:13Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe increasing surveillance by big tech companies or/and governments has raised concerns about the democratic and participatory structure of the datafied society. Meanwhile, over the course of the past decade, various bottom-up civic tech and digital civic initiatives have emerged to tackle pressing local issues, such as air pollution and disaster response, often via technology-mediated data collection, curation, analysis, design and visualisations, thus promoting democratic participation. In this article, we discuss how these data are understood in diverse contexts beyond the realm of civic tech and digital civics. In doing so, we explore the potential and limits of civic data by exploring the intersections of and differences between civic data and adjacent data-related concepts often used by civic tech communities themselves: counterdata and open data. Through our discursive exploration of these three data concepts, we conclude that understanding is limited when it comes to determining which data are ‘civic’, and that discussion of questions related to power structures, diversity and inclusion and infrastructuring of civic data has been minimal.
dc.identifier.citationShibuya, Y., Olojo, S., Hamm, A., Krishnan, R., & Pargman, T. C. (2025). Can civic data be counterdata and open data? Exploring the limits of data, contestation and governance. In T. Kox, A. Ullrich, & H. Zech (Eds.), Uncertain Journeys into Digital Futures (pp. 297–308). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748947585-297
dc.identifier.doi10.5771/9783748947585-297
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-7489-4758-5
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/858
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNomos
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcivic data
dc.subjectcivic tech
dc.subjectcounterdata
dc.subjectopen data
dc.subjectparticipation
dc.titleCan civic data be counterdata and open data? Exploring the limits of data, contestation and governance
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.5771/9783748947585-297
local.researchgroupDigitalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit, Teilhabe
local.researchtopicDigitale Technologien in der Gesellschaft
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