Next week, Brock will join universities around the world to recognize the growing importance of data.<\/p>\n
The Brock Library will host a range of events exploring data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities and creating a kinder world through data during International Love Data Week, which takes place from Monday, Feb. 12 to Friday, Feb. 16.<\/p>\n
Data Services Librarian Nicole Stradiotto says International Love Data Week is a chance to highlight the importance of data literacy and the creative ways researchers can use data.<\/p>\n
“Data is often understood as ‘pure’ information without context,\u201d says Stradiotto. \u201cBut to actually work with data well in any field, you really have to grasp the social meanings that are embedded in the way it’s created, disseminated and put to work. You have to ask who collected it, why it was collected and who benefits from it. If you want to perform quality research, or understand others’ research, you can’t shy away from these complexities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The week of in-person and virtual events kicks off with a presentation titled \u201cQueer Data Studies\u201d by University of Toronto Associate Professor of Information and Cinema Studies Patrick Keilty on Monday, Feb. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. in RFP 214.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis presentation is important because our lives are increasingly structured by data economies. While this is true for everybody, queer people have long had to negotiate opacity and visibility in ways that are relevant for data politics today,\u201d Keilty says. \u201cWe can learn from these queer histories about how to form an ethical approach to data.\u201d<\/p>\n
The International Love Data Week schedule includes:<\/p>\n
For more information about International Love Data Week, visit the Brock Library ExperienceBU<\/a> or email nstradiotto@brocku.ca<\/a> or maplib@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next week, Brock will join universities around the world to recognize the growing importance of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":90798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[2701,11180,8940,10831,13243,5919,3325,11240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90805,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90797\/revisions\/90805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}