Critical Perspectives on Data Access for Research provides a rich and interdisciplinary critique on regulation that opens the 'black box' of technology companies to researchers. It brings together scholars from across the globe, working in varied fields including critical legal studies, science and technology studies, critical data studies and digital humanities. The book explores questions of data access – to acquire and use data meaningfully as well as resist power. It covers a variety of themes, including the opportunities and challenges of the law as a tool for observing digital infrastructures, political economy of data access for research and the power dynamics between academia, private/public sector, and civil society. In doing so, the book also examines these questions in terms of the politics of knowledge production, discussing if there is a privileging of geographical and institutional contexts in data access regimes. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
This book studies data access and brings interdisciplinary perspectives on law, technology, governance and politics. Its primary aim is to examine and problematize ideas of transparency and data access as regulatory tools in contemporary policymaking. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Problematizes ideas of transparency and data access as regulatory tools. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The
Many Faces of Academia's Data Access to Digital Infrastructures Jef Ausloos
and Siddharth Peter de Souza; Part I. Imaginations:
1. Re-Conceptualizing
Governance Policies on Data Access for Research Carolina Aguerre;
2. Violent
Plains: Challenges and Strategies for Pastoralists' Data Access in Ghana
Frank Kwaku Agyei, Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey, Paul Osei-Tutu and Boateng
Kyereh;
3. From Rights to Skills Midas Nouwens and Pablo R. Velasco; Part II.
Limitations:
4. The Distributive Effects of Seeing: A Cautionary Tale from
the Early-Twentieth-Century Film Industry Brenda Dvoskin;
5. Keys Thrown
Away? Challenges in Brazil on Accessing Public-Interest Data on State
Surveillance Tools via Transparency Portals and Requests for Information
André Ramiro, Pedro Amaral, and Marcos César M. Pereira;
6. Digging into EU
Data Laws and Their Impact on African Researchers Paul Esselaar;
7. Denied by
Design? Data Access Rights in Encrypted Infrastructures Michael Veale; Part
III. Promises:
8. A Subject Access Request, Then What? (Un)structuring Online
Analytics for Data Institutions Jake Stein and Reuben Binns;
9. Data
Intermediaries for Good: Can Data Intermediation Services Help Data Access in
Research? Matteo Nebbiai;
10. Paving the Way for the Right to Research
Platform Data in the Digital Services Act Aline Iramina, Maayan Perel, and
Niva Elkin-Koren;
11. Access to Data on Disinformation within the Code of
Practice on Disinformation Michalina Kowala; About the Contributors; Index.
Jef Ausloos is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, and a research fellow at the centre for IT & IP law at the University of Leuven. His work centres around several information law issues specifically data rights, transparency, and governance of digital infrastructures and the broader political economy in which they operate. As such, Jef's research can be situated at the intersection of law, critical data studies and the politics of knowledge production. Siddharth Peter de Souza is an Assistant Professor of AI & Society and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methods, University of Warwick. His work explores how data is governed globally in contested and plural settings, and he is interested in the role that social movements and civil society can play in shaping digital transformations. He is also the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture in India where he works on projects related to access to justice and legal empowerment.
