Project description
A new way to study data loss
Data loss is inevitable in today’s digital society, whether the data disappears, is destroyed or is dispossessed. The EU-funded DALOSS project will explore data loss across the internet, European administrations and social media platforms. In this first systematic study of data loss, DALOSS will combine ethnographic and digital methods (digital forensics, counter-archiving and linkrot scoping) and will shift the focus from big data accumulation of data to the loss of data. It will engage different tracks of theory within critical data studies and critical archival studies to create an approach that enables the interconnected dynamics of data loss to be studied. The project’s findings will shed light on data loss as part of the ongoing digitisation and datafication processes.
Objective
The objective of Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction, dispossession in digital societies (DALOSS) is to empirically demonstrate data loss as an integral dynamic within the current turn to digitization and big data, with deep-seated societal and political implications for the ongoing development of digital information ecologies. DALOSS examines data loss across three archival regimes the internet, European bureaucracies, and social media platforms. It provides the first systematic study of data loss, offering novel and important insights for the future of European data politics.
This project employs an original methodology combining ethnographic and digital methods, including digital forensics, counter-archiving and linkrot scoping. On this basis, DALOSS pioneers a new interdisciplinary approach, which brings together different tracks of theory within Critical Data Studies and Critical Archival Studies. This approach enables distinct but mutually interconnected dynamics of data loss disappearance, destruction and dispossession to be studied within a common analytical-theoretical framework. The analysis will offer unique insights into data loss as part of ongoing digitization and datafication processes, and the political, social and infrastructural implications of this phenomenon.
The breakthrough potential of DALOSS is two-fold. By shifting the focus in big data discourses from accumulation to loss, this project establishes an entirely new and societally important research agenda of general relevance to scholars working on big data within the humanities and social sciences. Second, by situating data loss within the broader intellectual histories of loss and technology, the project develops a theoretical apparatus for understanding data loss not merely as technical challenges, but also as a fundamental cultural and political condition.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- humanities history and archaeology history
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science big data
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- social sciences political sciences public administration bureaucracy
You need to log in or register to use this function
We are sorry... an unexpected error occurred during execution.
You need to be authenticated. Your session might have expired.
Thank you for your feedback. You will soon receive an email to confirm the submission. If you have selected to be notified about the reporting status, you will also be contacted when the reporting status will change.
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC Grants
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) ERC-2022-STG
See all projects funded under this callHost institution
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
1165 KOBENHAVN
Denmark
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.