Jungforscher*innen-Workshop "Data Fluencies"
Vizerektor Clemens Apprich
veranstaltet als Vorsitzender des Forum Open Science Austria (OSA) an der Österreichischen Universitätenkonferenz (uniko)
einen Jungforscher*innen-Workshop zum Thema „Data Fluencies“.
Data Fluencies
– Online-Workshop
What are data fluencies?
Data fluencies combine analytical techniques from arts
and humanities with tools from data science to fluidly understand and engage our data-filled world in all their complexities
and contradictions. Moving beyond data literacy, with its emphasis on thinking within the boundaries of the world as given,
data fluencies start by realizing that the world our technologies anticipate is not the only possibility, and instead encourage
us to interject and resist the tacit and explicit norms embedded in data work. They embrace creative and imaginative capabilities
as a means to grapple with the complexities of data systems and to rewrite the scripts we’re given.
What is the Data
Fluencies project?
Since 2022, the Digital Democracies Institute (DDI) based at Simon Fraser University (SFU) has
spearheaded the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies research project (https://digitaldemocracies.org/data-fluencies/)
under the leadership of Professor Wendy Chun. Project contributors consist of researchers from across the globe who tackle
social justice issues pertaining to data including technology developers, media scholars, theatre producers, curators, artists
and designers. The project’s aim is to develop tools to identify and resist dangers posed by social media and predatory algorithms
and to advance innovative qualitative-quantitative methods for addressing pressing data justice challenges like online polarization,
abusive language, discriminatory algorithms, and mis- and disinformation. 
