CPDP 2018: GENDERED DATA BODIES.
GENDERED DATA BODIES.
Chair: Gloria González Fuster, VUB (BE)
Moderator: Rocco Bellanova, University of Amsterdam (NL)
Speakers: Seeta Peña Gangadharan, LSE (UK); Grégoire Marino, Clue (DE); Ana Brandusescu, World Wide Web Foundation (UK); Valentina Hvale Pellizzer, Association for Progressive Communications (ZA)
Online data collection and processing are often portrayed as gender-less practices. Gender, however, can play a determinant role in the ways in which our bodies are apprehended, mediated and modulated through data. Also, besides and beyond gender, other dimensions may need to be (better) integrated in the ways in which we understand and frame contemporary data realities. This panel aims to foster these discussions by considering data bodies from a gendered and intersectional perspective, discussing the practical functioning and possibilities of menstrual tracker apps, exploring the connections between online information and sexual education and expression, and inquiring about the global challenges in this area. It will notably ask:
What is special about girls’ and women’s experiences of data sharing and processing, and what can we learn about them through increasingly popular menstrual trackers?
What do we know about the relations between the Internet, sexual expression, sexualities and sexual health practices?
How to think globally about feminist data politics, with and beyond gender?