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The social utility of ‘data literacy’
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posted on 2020-04-02, 00:00 authored by Luci PangrazioLuci Pangrazio, Julian Sefton-GreenJulian Sefton-GreenThis article examines the social utility of the concept, ‘data literacy’. Recent developments in the processes of datafication challenge long-held assumptions about privacy and the role of both state and commerce in individual lives. Typically, these have been addressed through: regulatory legal constraints underwritten by the nation state but are difficult to enforce at a global level; tactical resistance through forms of self-regulation and technical innovations, and; educational interventions, typically as ‘literacy’, which brings understanding of the new forms of digital control. The article considers the benefit of theorising digital data as a ‘text’ and reviews current educational models of data literacy, categorised here as formal, personal and folk pedagogies of data. The article concludes that while the analogy between print and data has many inconsistencies, the term has rhetorical benefits. However, to become a meaningful strategy ‘data literacy’ requires both a more complete theorisation and complex practical development.
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Learning, media and technologyVolume
45Issue
2Pagination
208 - 220Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1743-9884eISSN
1743-9892Language
engPublication classification
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