SIAH Data Series 2022: Literacies Event

Overview

Following the European Digital Service Act Package (DSA), the UK draft Online Safety Bill and the current Covid-19 crisis it has become evident that misuse of data (in multiple ways such as spying and trading our data, mis/disinformation, conspiracy theories and others) have the potential to harm people’s health, wellbeing, trust in institutions and more broadly our democracy. But while there is an attempt to keep platforms accountable and more firmly regulated (with the ‘duty of care’), citizens need to have literacies to assist them against multiple types of online harms. In this presentation I'll talk about my previous and current projects that explored how people use and understand their data and what are the implications of that has on our personal, civic, and community agency and imagination.

Speaker biography

Dr. Elinor Carmi is a feminist, scholar, journalist and activist, working on data literacies, data politics, feminist approaches to data and media and data policy. She is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the Sociology Department at City University, London, UK. Currently she is working on the following projects: 1) CO- I on the Nuffield Foundation project "Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard"; 2) POST Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK's Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee on the project I proposed: "Digital literacies for a healthy democracy"; 3) CO-I on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub project "Trustworthy Autonomous Recommender Systems on Music Streaming Platforms". She recently finished working on the Nuffield Foundation project Me and My Big Data: Developing Citizens Data Literacies and The UKRI project "COVID-19: Being alone together: developing fake news immunity". 

Other events in the series

Event 2: Civics - Wednesday 4th May 4-5pm

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Event 3: Inequalities - Wednesday 11th May 4-5pm

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Following the three events with guest speakers, we will consider a further event for networking and ideas generation relating to potential University of Southampton projects.

The series will be convened by Dr Dan Ashton (Fellow in Disparate Data and Unexpected Evidence with Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities) with postgraduate and early career researchers taking on chairing/discussant roles. Please contact Dan with any queries (d.k.ashton@soton.ac.uk).