[DATAGOV Core] DRAFT MAIL DATAGOV Kick-off (Day 2) – preparing your intervention + panel exchange

[Jonas Breuer]

Hi Stef,

sorry to ask this stupid question but as people seem to be sensitive about their significance euhm I’d rather like you have a quick look before I put a strain on another of your relationships. Quick look, please?


Dear [Name],

Thank you again for joining the DATAGOV kick-off and contributing your amazing ideas and expertise.

The event is divided into two days. After the closed workshop on 26 March (see my previous emails), we go public on Friday 27 March (as a reminder of the agenda, I attach Stefania’s email here again).

Today, we would like to invite you to start shaping your intervention on Day 2, and (if possible) to begin the exchange among speakers in your session. The session is intended to surface tensions and faultlines related to the governance by data infrastructure. As this is very broad, we are excited to learn more about your contributions.

As a reminder, the day starts at 09:30 with coffee. At 10:00, the DATAGOV team will offer a short welcome and framing of the public day.

Your session begins at 10:45 under the title “Governing by data infrastructure: tensions and fault lines”. It will run as a keynote panel with Louise Amoore opening the session with a 15-minute intervention, followed by a 45-minute roundtable discussion between her, Mirca Madianou, Rocco Bellanova, and Niels ten Oever, structured around a set of provocative statements and targeted questions. We will then open the room for a (30-minute) Q&A with the audience.

@Louise, could you please share with us and the panellists the main themes and 3-5 bullet points describing your intervention? In addition, it would be very helpful for the moderation if you could share up to 5 questions that you would like to be addressed by yourself and/or the panellists in the discussion. Also, could you please let us know whether you would like to show slides during your intervention?
@Mirca, Rocco and Niels, could you also share 3-5 bullet points regarding what you would be most interested in discussing in this round? We are looking for short, provocative, idea-dense interventions that will seed a lively panel discussion. As well as up to 5 questions in reaction to Louise’s intervention?
Here a few pointers on what DATAGOV is most interested in: DATAGOV is not a project about data governance as such. Our focus is on regulatory data infrastructures—the socio-technical arrangements through which regulation is increasingly enacted, delegated, and operationalised via data, metrics, interfaces, and automated procedures, and through which people’s access, rights, and opportunities are shaped in practice. In empirical terms, we are especially interested in how these dynamics play out across four technology families that are rapidly expanding in public-sector contexts: biometrics, digital IDs, health technologies, and education technologies. Across these domains, we are particularly attentive to how such infrastructures redistribute agency, accountability, and power (including across public–private relations), how they create new forms of inequality and harm, and how they are contested, negotiated, or normalised. Finally, beyond substantive findings, we are also actively interested in methodology: what it takes to study these infrastructures in situated ways, and how research can involve publics and citizens—not only as “affected communities”, but as participants in sense-making, agenda-setting, and contestation.

Thank you, again, for your time, effort and contributions. We truly appreciate and are very much looking forward to getting together.

Kind regards,
Jonas



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Department of Media Studies



Jonas Breuer

Postdoctoral Researcher / DATAGOV Project



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