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Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word.
- Source :
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Social Movement Studies . May2024, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p422-428. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This guest contribution to the Contentious Data special issue asks: What are the fundamental processes underlying the possibility of data activism? It argues that, if like everything else, social movements are being datafied, this operates on at least four levels: a change in the general conditions under which all social movements operate; data becoming either the specific or general object of activism; and finally, data becoming crucial to practices of movement resistance. Underlying this is a further pattern, that data as a narrative are increasingly an important aspect of contestation in contemporary politics. I interpret this general phenomenon through the lens of the social theory of Alberto Melucci and the leader of the Zapatistas movement, Subcomandante Marcos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIAL movements
*SOCIAL theory
*ACTIVISM
*NARRATIVES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14742837
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Movement Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176474468
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2024.2328581