Datafication in Figured Worlds: Narrating COVID-19 Data

Josh Radinsky, Iris Tabak, Aleksandra Adach

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Abstract

The COVID19 pandemic offers an opportunity to inspect how people make sense of the world with data in their everyday lives. Using a theoretical framework based on the construct of figured worlds, we conducted think-aloud interviews to study the ways people narrate their routines with data during the pandemic. The analysis enabled us to characterize people’s constructions of their agency as interpreters of data; the ways they manage the uncertainties of data; their data-mediated judgements and decisions during the pandemic. These constructions of agency and identity in a data-infused world help us understand both how we learn about the pandemic with data, and more generally, how data mediates our learning about the social world.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISLS Annual Meeting 2021 Reflecting the Past and Embracing the Future - 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021
EditorsErica de Vries, Yotam Hod, June Ahn
PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Pages1071-1072
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781737330615
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021
Event15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 8 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
ISSN (Print)1814-9316

Conference

Conference15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/06/2111/06/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Education

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