Toward information justice : technology, politics, and policy for data in higher education administration / Jeffrey Alan Johnson.
2018
QA76.9.B45
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Title
Toward information justice : technology, politics, and policy for data in higher education administration / Jeffrey Alan Johnson.
ISBN
9783319708942 (electronic book)
3319708945 (electronic book)
9783319708928
3319708945 (electronic book)
9783319708928
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Language
English
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10.1007/978-3-319-70894-2 doi
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QA76.9.B45
Dewey Decimal Classification
005.7
Summary
This book presents a theory of information justice that subsumes the question of control and relates it to other issues that influence just social outcomes. Data does not exist by nature. Bureaucratic societies must provide standardized inputs for governing algorithms, a problem that can be understood as one of legibility. This requires, though, converting what we know about social objects and actions into data, narrowing the many possible representations of the objects to a definitive one using a series of translations. Information thus exists within a nexus of problems, data, models, and actions that the social actors constructing the data bring to it. This opens information to analysis from social and moral perspectives, while the scientistic view leaves us blind to the gains from such analysis--especially to the ways that embedded values and assumptions promote injustice. Toward Information Justice answers a key question for the 21st Century: how can an information-driven society be just? Many of those concerned with the ethics of data focus on control over data, and argue that if data is only controlled by the right people then just outcomes will emerge. There are serious problems with this control metaparadigm, however, especially related to the initial creation of data and prerequisites for its use. This text is suitable for academics in the fields of information ethics, political theory, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies, as well as policy professionals who rely on data to reach increasingly problematic conclusions about courses of action.-- Provided by publisher.
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Public administration and information technology ; v. 33.
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Print version: 9783319708928
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