In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. The event invited participants to explore the pandemic from the perspective of communities and individuals at the margins in the Global South and beyond. It introduces the editorial project of the same title.
Recommended Resources:
- Masiero S (2020) COVID-19: What does it mean for digital social protection? Big Data & Society 7(2). DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720978995
- Milan S (2020) Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the COVID-19 pandemic. Big Data & Society, 7(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720966781.
- Milan S and Treré E (2020) The rise of the data poor: The COVID-19 pandemic seen from the margins. Social Media + Society (July-September). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948233.
- Milan S, Treré E and Masiero S (2021) COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. Available at: https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Covid19FromTheMargins-1.pdf/
- Sarkar S and Korjan A (eds) (2021) A Digital New Deal. Visions of Justice in a Post-Covid World. Vancouver, BC: IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Digital-New-Deal-PDF.pdf
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