Abstract
The “myth of digital universalism” manifests not only in the means by which it keeps public narratives and imaginations fixed exclusively around so-called “centres” of innovation, but in the means by which it simultaneously discourages attention to digital dynamics beyond such centres—a dynamic conjuring colonial relations to data and the periphery that reporters and scholars of global digital cultures alike must be wary of reproducing.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | The Data Journalism Handbook |
Subtitle of host publication | Towards A Critical Data Practice |
Editors | Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 307-313 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789048542079 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789462989511 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 23 2021 |
Keywords
- digital universalism
- local innovation
- decolonial computing
- colonial relations
- periphery
- centre