The authors reveal how data serves as a weapon for power, suggesting data justice as a viable solution for inequality.
Looking through the intersectional feminist lens, Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein introduce data as a tool of power in the past and present world in their book Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020) and reveal how authorities have used data as a weapon to maintain a hierarchy of power in favor of their position in the unequal status quo. By calling data a part of the problem, they also conceive of it as a part of the solution by analyzing how data justice can and ought to be redeployed to challenge power.
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