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EventTalkCitizens Data Agency Event – Civic Approaches to Data Governance
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Citizens Data Agency Event – Civic Approaches to Data Governance
Join us for our third Citizens Data Agency event exploring civic and participatory approaches to data governance, with a fantastic panel of academics who will share their work in this field. On the panel we have Dr Arne Hintz (Data Justice Lab), Dr Emily Rempel (Data Civic Cooperative) and Dr Joanna Redden (Data Justice Lab). The panel will each share insights from their recent work through presentations, followed by a group discussion and Q&A from the audience.
Speaker Profile:
Dr Arne Hintz is Reader at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) and Director of its PhD programme. He is co-founder and co-Director of the Data Justice Lab. His research focuses on the practices and conditions of digital citizenship, combining work on participation, digital policy, online activism and datafication. He is Co-Chair of the Global Media Policy Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). His recent publications include the co-authored Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (Polity, 2019) and Data Justice (Sage, 2022)
Dr Emily Rempel is the public participation manager at the Liverpool city region Civic Data Cooperative, hosted at the University of Liverpool. Her research and practice is at the intersections of critical data studies, public engagement, public health, and knowledge exchange. Her current projects include building models of public governance of local data and designing knowledge exchange systems for health data.
Dr Joanna Redden is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, Canada, and co-Director of the Data Justice Lab. Her research focuses on the datafication of governance. She investigates how government information systems and service provision are changing, the democratic implications of changing government practices and how these transformations are affecting people. Joanna is co-editor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (2015) and co-author of Data Justice (2022).
The event will be held online, please register to receive a link to join.
*Please note the event will be recorded*
About Citizens Data Agency
The Citizens Data Agency research project is running monthly public events exploring data, citizen-led privacy, the impact of emerging technologies on citizens’ data and alternative data governance. We hope the events will be an opportunity to explore these topics through inspiring projects and be an opportunity to learn more about how citizens can be empowered to protect their privacy and data. The events are free to attend and open to everyone.
Website – www.citizensdataagency.co.uk
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