Beyond Data Literacy: Creative and Critical Practices for Data Fluencies

Jungforscher*innen Workshop der Open Science Austria

©Digital Democracies Institute (DDI)

Step Into Data Fluencies

Break free from the confines of data literacy and step into the transformative realm of data fluencies. While literacy teaches us to operate within the world as it’s presented, fluencies empower us to question, reimagine, and rewrite those boundaries. By blending arts, humanities, and data science, data fluencies embrace creativity and imagination to confront the complexities and contradictions of our data-driven world. It’s not just about understanding data—it’s about reshaping the norms and narratives embedded in it.

About the Data Fluencies Project

Since 2022, the Digital Democracies Institute (DDI) at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) has led the groundbreaking Data Fluencies project, backed by the Mellon Foundation and helmed by Professor Wendy Chun. This global collective—comprising researchers, artists, technologists, and creators—tackles social justice challenges in the data sphere. From resisting predatory algorithms to developing tools for combating online polarization, discriminatory systems, and disinformation, this project develops methods to advance data justice and reimagine our digital future.

Data Fluencies in practice

Participants will learn about data fluencies in practice through an introduction to a unique set of tools and methods developed by the team. This will be followed by a hands-on workshop where participants will be invited to try out one of the tools called Mythical Shadow Animals, which was co-created with a group of teenagers from Vancouver, to explore how data shape their everyday lives.

Registered participants will receive the Zoom link by email.

Further information and registrations:
https://www.osa-openscienceaustria.at/event/beyond-data-literacy-osa-jungforscherinnen-workshop/

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