News media discourses on datafication and automation have become more sensitive to data risks, but their complexity is a challenge for informing lay audiences about root causes and solutions.
News and Research articles on Data literacy
In this paper we examine what data literacy means in the age of dis-/mis-/mal-information. We examine theoretical and methodological challenges researchers face when examining these two fields and how we can move forward by sharing our own experience in designing a survey to understand UK citizens data literacies.
The paper discusses the novel concept of critical big data literacy and presents first findings on online data literacy tools and their effects.
This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates.
This special issue is examining the different layers of digital inclusion and data literacy by drawing on research, policy, and practice developments around literacies in various regions and contexts. It highlights the politics around them so as to propose policies that are needed to include more people in datafied societies, and what types of literacies they should learn.