News and Research articles on Social justice

Digitally-disadvantaged languages

Isabelle A. Zaugg, Columbia University
Anushah Hossain, University of California Berkeley
Brendan Molloy, Independent researcher
PUBLISHED ON: 11 Apr 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.2.1654

Digitally-disadvantaged languages face multiple inequities in the digital sphere, with their speaker communities frequently experiencing the duality of digital neglect and surveillance. These languages suffer from gaps in digital support, and when support does exist, it often makes speaker communities vulnerable to surveillance and gaps in content moderation.

Data justice

Lina Dencik, Cardiff University
Javier Sanchez-Monedero, University of Córdoba
PUBLISHED ON: 14 Jan 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1615

The concept of data justice has been used to denote a shift in understanding of what is at stake with datafication beyond digital rights. This essay speaks to different interpretations of the substance of data justice (ontology), who it applies to (scope), and how it should be upheld (procedure).