Data activism: The politics of big data according to civil society

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Media Innovation and Social Change: Introduction to the Special Issue

Author(s): Niahmh Ní Bhroin, Stefania Milan
Published in: The Journal of Media Innovations, 6/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 1894-5562
Publisher: University of Oslo
DOI: 10.5617/jomi.7829

“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries

Author(s): Becky Kazansky, Stefania Milan
Published in: New Media & Society, 23/2, 2021, Page(s) 363-381, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1461444820929316

“This is not how we imagined it”: Technological affordances, economic drivers, and the Internet architecture imaginary

Author(s): Niels ten Oever
Published in: New Media & Society, 23/2, 2021, Page(s) 344-362, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1461444820929320

Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Big Data & Society, 7/2, 2020, Page(s) 205395172096678, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2053951720966781

Understanding migrants in COVID-19 counting: Rethinking the data-(in)visibility nexus

Author(s): Annalisa Pelizza, Stefania Milan, Yoren Lausberg
Published in: Data & Policy, 3, 2021, Page(s) E18, ISSN 2632-3249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/dap.2021.19

Promises Made to Be Broken: Performance and Performativity in Digital Vaccine and Immunity Certification

Author(s): Stefania MILAN, Michael VEALE, Linnet TAYLOR, Seda GÜRSES
Published in: European Journal of Risk Regulation, 12/2, 2021, Page(s) 382-392, ISSN 1867-299X
Publisher: Lexxion
DOI: 10.1017/err.2021.26

‘It depends on your threat model’: the anticipatory dimensions of resistance to data-driven surveillance

Author(s): Becky Kazansky
Published in: Big Data & Society, 8/1, 2021, Page(s) 205395172098555, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2053951720985557

Reversing Data Politics: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Lonneke van der Velden
Published in: Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 1/2018, 2018, ISSN 1875-7103
Publisher: Stichting Krisis

Three aspects of data worlds

Author(s): Jonathan Gray
Published in: Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 1/2018, 2018, ISSN 1875-7103
Publisher: Stichting Krisis

Political Agency, Digital Traces, and Bottom-Up Data Practices

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: International Journal of Communication, 12, 2018, Page(s) 507–527, ISSN 1932-8036
Publisher: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Coding and encoding rights in internet infrastructure

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Niels ten Oever
Published in: Internet Policy Review, 6(1), 2016, ISSN 2197-6775
Publisher: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
DOI: 10.14763/2017.1.442

FCJ-192 Sand in the Information Society Machine: How Digital Technologies Change and Challenge the Paradigms of Civil Disobedience

Author(s): Theresa Zügar, Stefania Milan, Leonie Maria Tanczer
Published in: The Fibreculture Journal, 26, 2015, Page(s) 109-136, ISSN 1449-1443
Publisher: The Fiberculture Journal Incorporated
DOI: 10.15307/fcj.26.192.2015

Autonomous infrastructure for a suckless internet

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 24/4, 2018, Page(s) 20-23, ISSN 1528-4972
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3220877

Routes to rights: internet architecture and values in times of ossification and commercialization

Author(s): Niels ten Oever, Davide Beraldo
Published in: XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 24/4, 2018, Page(s) 28-31, ISSN 1528-4972
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3220561

Productive Contestation, Civil Society, and Global Governance: Human Rights as a Boundary Object in ICANN

Author(s): Niels ten Oever
Published in: Policy & Internet, 2018, ISSN 1944-2866
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/poi3.172

“Through a Glass, Darkly”: Everyday Acts of Authoritarianism in the Liberal West

Author(s): Arne Hintz and Stefania Milan
Published in: International Journal of Communication, 12, 2018, ISSN 1932-8036
Publisher: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Playing with data and its consequences

Author(s): Miren Gutiérrez, Stefania Milan
Published in: First Monday, 24/1, 2019, ISSN 1396-0466
Publisher: Munksgaard International Publishers
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v24i1.9554

Accounting for power in transnational civic tech activism: A communication-based analytical framework for media practice

Author(s): Kersti Ruth Wissenbach
Published in: International Communication Gazette, 2019, Page(s) 174804851983277, ISSN 1748-0485
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1748048519832779

Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré
Published in: Television & New Media, 20/4, 2019, Page(s) 319-335, ISSN 1527-4764
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1527476419837739

Internet Architecture and Human Rights: Beyond the Human Rights Gap

Author(s): Monika Zalnieriute, Stefania Milan
Published in: Policy & Internet, 11/1, 2019, Page(s) 6-15, ISSN 1944-2866
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/poi3.200

Datafication from Below: Epistemology, Ambivalences, Challenges

Author(s): Giuseppina Pellegrino, Johan Söderberg, Stefania Milan
Published in: Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 10(1), 2019, Page(s) 89-113, ISSN 2038-3460
Publisher: STS Italia

Do Not Harm in Private Chat Apps: Ethical Issues for Research on and with WhatsApp

Author(s): Sérgio Barbosa, Stefania Milan
Published in: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 14/1, 2019, Page(s) 49-65, ISSN 1744-6716
Publisher: Westminster University Press
DOI: 10.16997/wpcc.313

Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia

Author(s): Leonie Maria Tanczer, Ronald J Deibert, Didier Bigo, M I Franklin, Lucas Melgaço, David Lyon, Becky Kazansky, Stefania Milan
Published in: International Studies Perspectives, 2019, ISSN 1528-3577
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/isp/ekz016

From data politics to the contentious politics of data

Author(s): Davide Beraldo, Stefania Milan
Published in: Big Data & Society, 6/2, 2019, Page(s) 205395171988596, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2053951719885967

The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Lonneke van der Velden
Published in: Digital Culture & Society, 2/2, 2016, Page(s) 57-74, ISSN 2364-2122
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.14361/dcs-2016-0205

FCJ-195 Privacy, Responsibility, and Human Rights Activism

Author(s): Becky Kazansky
Published in: The Fibreculture Journal, 26, 2015, Page(s) 190-208, ISSN 1449-1443
Publisher: n.a.
DOI: 10.15307/fcj.26.195.2015

Enter the WhatsApper: Reinventing digital activism at the time of chat apps

Author(s): Stefania Milan Sérgio Barbosa
Published in: First Monday, 25(1), 2020, ISSN 1396-0466
Publisher: Munksgaard International Publishers
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v25i1.10414

Institutional resistance to transparency: the quest for Public Sector Information in Mexico

Author(s): Guillén Torres
Published in: Journal of Resistance Studies, 5(2), 2020, ISSN 1654-7063
Publisher: Irene Publishing/ University of Massachusetts Amherst

COVID-19 from the Margins: Crafting a (Cosmopolitan) Theory

Author(s): Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré
Published in: Global Media Journal - German Edition, 11(1), 2021, ISSN 2196-4807
Publisher: FU Berlin, University of Erfurt
DOI: 10.22032/dbt.49163

The Rise of the Data Poor: The COVID-19 Pandemic Seen From the Margins

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré
Published in: Social Media + Society, 6/3, 2020, Page(s) 205630512094823, ISSN 2056-3051
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2056305120948233

Book chapters (18)

Big Data

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs, 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-3-030-13895-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_103-1

Big Data from the South(s): An Analytical Matrix to In- vestigate Data at the Margins

Author(s): Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré
Published in: Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media, Edited by Deana A. Rohlinger and Sarah Sobieraj, 2021, Page(s) 1-21, ISBN 9780197510636
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197510636.013.7

Studying Discourse in Internet Governance through Mailing-list Analysis

Author(s): Niels ten Oever, Stefania Milan, Davide Beraldo
Published in: Researching Internet Governance. Methods, Frameworks, Futures, Edited by Laura DeNardis, Derrick Cogburn, Nanette S. Levinson, Francesca Musiani, 2020, Page(s) 213-229, ISBN 9780262360869
Publisher: MIT Press

Technopolitics in the Age of Big Data

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Miren Gutierrez
Published in: Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research, 2018, Page(s) 95-109, ISBN 978-3-319-65559-8
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65560-4_5

Human rights and the media/protest assemblage

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights, 2017, Page(s) 327-336, ISBN 9781-138665545
Publisher: Routledge

The Internet as a Global/Local Site of Contestation: The Case of Iran

Author(s): Mahsa Alimardani, Stefania Milan
Published in: Global Cultures of Contestation, Edited by Peeren, E., Celikates, R., de Kloet, J., Poell, Th., 2018, Page(s) 171-192, ISBN 978-3-319-63981-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63982-6_9

Ways of Seeing Data: Toward a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices

Author(s): Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Published in: Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research, 2016, Page(s) 227-251, ISBN 978-3-319-40699-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40700-5_12

Data For The Social Good: Toward a Data-Activist Research Agenda

Author(s): Becky Kazansky, Guillén Torres, Lonneke van der Velden, Kersti Wissenbach, Stefania Milan
Published in: Good Data, 2019, Page(s) 224-259, ISBN 978-94-92302-27-4
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures

The materiality of clouds. Beyond a platform-specific critique of contemporary activism

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical Reflections, 1st Edition, 2018, Page(s) 116-128, ISBN 9781-138093089
Publisher: Routledge

Acting on data(fication)

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges, 2019
Publisher: Routledge

Data activism as the new frontier of media activism

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Media Activism in the Digital Age, Edited by Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang, 2017, Page(s) 151-163, ISBN 9781-138228016
Publisher: Routledge

Liberated Technology: Inside Emancipatory Communication Activism

Author(s): Milan Stefania
Published in: Civic Media - Technology, Design, Practice, Edited by Eric Gordon, Paul Mihailidis, 2016, Page(s) 107-124, ISBN 9780262334242
Publisher: The MIT Press
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9970.003.0007

Involving Communities as Skilled Learners: The STRAP Framework

Author(s): Chiara Milan, Stefania Milan
Published in: Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change, Edited by Wildermuth, Norbert and Ngomba, Teke, 2016, Page(s) 9-28, ISBN 978-3-319-40465-3
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40466-0_2

"#HackEverything: Everyday Life and Politics in the Computational Theocracy"

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Hacking habitat: Art of control, Edited by Ine Gevers, Iris van der Tuin and Petran Kockelkoren, 2016, Page(s) 20-33, ISBN 9789-462082687
Publisher: nai010

Latin American Visions for a Digital New Deal: Towards Buen Vivir With Data

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré
Published in: A Digital New Deal. Visions of Justice in a Post-Covid World, 2021, Page(s) 100-111
Publisher: Just Net Coalition and IT for Change

Big Data

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media, 2020, Page(s) 37-42, ISBN 978-1-138-66556-9
Publisher: Routledge

Una brecha de datos cada vez mayor: La Covid-19 y el Sur Global

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré
Published in: Alerta global. Políticas, movimientos sociales y futuros en disputa en tiempos de pandemia, 2020, Page(s) 95–100, ISBN 978-987-722-646-1
Publisher: CLACSO/ALAS

The Handbook of Peer Production

Author(s): Milan Stefania
Published in: The Handbook of Peer Production, edited by Mathieu O'Neil, Christian Pentzold, Sophie Toupin, 2020, Page(s) 299-310, ISBN 9781119537151
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1002/9781119537151.ch22

Other (15)

The politics and ethics of studying (data) activism. DATACTIVE Ethics Working Paper

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Lonneke van der Velden, Becky Kazansky
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series, 2/2021, 2021, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 2666-0733
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Public OSINT: What is Open Source in Open Source Investigations?

Author(s): Lonneke van der Velden
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series, 1/2021, 2021, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2666-0733
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Why digital culture needs a new MacBride Commission

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Media Development, 2/2021, 2021, Page(s) 11-14
Publisher: WACC

How big data and technology discriminate against vulnerable populations

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Au Courant. At the heart of development, March 2021, 2021, Page(s) 3
Publisher: Global Affairs Canada

Big Data from the South: The beginning of a conversation we must have

Author(s): Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré
Published in: DATACTIVE blog, October 16, 2017
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Big Data from the South: The Beginning of a Conversation We Must Have

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Trere
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: DATACTIVE
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3056958

Auditing the State: Everyday Forms of Institutional Resistance in the Mexican Freedom of Information Process

Author(s): Guillén Torres
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series, 1/2019, 2019, ISSN 2666-0733
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Reduce, retract and redact. Stefania Milan on the socio-legal complexities of digital redemption and digital reinvention

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Times Higher Education, 11-17 August, 2016, Page(s) 42
Publisher: TES Global

Researching Data Activism: Epistemology and Methods

Author(s): Davide Beraldo, Stefania Milan
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series, no. 2/2017, 2017
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Data Politics at the Grassroots: Defining Data Activism

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Lonneke van der Velden
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series, no. 1/2017, 2017
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Big Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda

Author(s): Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré (eds), with Anna Berti Suman, Kersti Ruth Wissenbach, Guillén Torres, Niels ten Oever, Zhen Ye
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series, 04/2019, 2019
Publisher: DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam

A widening data divide: COVID-19 and the Global South

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré
Published in: Data & Policy Blog (cambridge.org/dap), 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Making migrants visible to COVID-19 counting: the dilemma

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Annalisa Pelizza, Joren Lausberg
Published in: OpenDemocracy, 2020
Publisher: openDemocracy Limited,

Spotting Sharks: ALEX's Competitor Analysis

Author(s): Jeroen de Vos
Published in: DATACTIVE Working Paper Series 2/2019, 2/2019, 2019, ISSN 2666-0733
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Does Facebook’s NewsFeed Algorithm Reinforce Filter Bubbles? An Experimental Methodology Using fbtrex

Author(s): Davide Beraldo
Published in: DATACTIVE/ALEX Working Paper Series, 1/2019, 2019
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Conference proceedings (3)

Report: Data for the Social Good

Author(s): DATACTIVE team
Published in: Report from the workshop 'Data for the Social Good', November 16-17, 2017, 22 January 2018, 2018
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Report: Contentious Data and the Politics of Big Data for Activism

Author(s): Davide Beraldo and Becky Kazansky, with Lonneke van der Velden and Guillen Torres Sepulveda
Published in: Report from the workshop 'Contentious Data', September 15, 2016, n.a., 2017, Page(s) 1-15
Publisher: DATACTIVE

Understanding Internet Censorship in Europe: The Case of Spain

Author(s): Vasilis Ververis, Tatiana Ermakova, Marios Isaakidis, Simone Basso, Benjamin Fabian, Stefania Milan
Published in: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, June 2021, 2021, Page(s) 319-328, ISBN 9781450383301
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3447535.3462638

Non-peer reviewed articles (5)

Infrastrutture antagoniste e auto-organizzazione mediatica

Author(s): Stefania Milan
Published in: Zapruder: Rivista di storia della conflittualità sociale, 45, 2018, ISSN 1723-0020
Publisher: ODRADEK

Personalisation algorithms and elections: breaking free of the filter bubble

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Claudio Agosti
Published in: Internet Policy Review, 2019, Page(s) n.a., ISSN 2197-6775
Publisher: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society,

Citizens’ media meets big data: the emergence of data activism

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Miren Gutiérrez
Published in: MEDIACIONES, 11/14, 2015, Page(s) 120-133, ISSN 2590-8057
Publisher: Uniminuto
DOI: 10.26620/uniminuto.mediaciones.11.14.2015.120-133

Medios ciudadanos y big data: La emergencia del activismo de datos

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Miren Gutiérrez
Published in: MEDIACIONES, 11/14, 2015, Page(s) 10-26, ISSN 2590-8057
Publisher: Uniminuto University
DOI: 10.26620/uniminuto.mediaciones.11.14.2015.10-26

Political advertising exposed: tracking Facebook ads in the 2021 Dutch elections

Author(s): Davide Beraldo, Stefania Milan, Jeroen de Vos, Claudio Agosti, Bruno Nadalic Sotic, Rens Vliegenthart, Sanne Kruikemeier, Lukas P Otto, Susan A. M. Vermeer, Xiaotong Chu, Fabio Votta
Published in: Internet Policy Review, 2021, ISSN 2197-6775
Publisher: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Thesis dissertations (1)

Wired Norms: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure

Author(s): Niels ten Oever
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Amsterdam

Monographic books (1)

COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society

Author(s): Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero, eds.
Published in: Theory on Demand Series, no 40, 2021, Page(s) 280, ISBN 978-94-92302-72-4
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures