Cogent Comments by Rachel Roberson https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115 A space to share your thoughts en-us 2021-11-15 22:10:38 UTC 2025-09-28 14:52:05 UTC hello@padlet.com Data in social movements https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892550318 Collecting data from people who have ground-level experience of social injustice, which might not be captured by other means.

]]> 2021-11-15 23:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892550318 Unsure. With little hope. https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892550392 Nowadays, it feels like a few companies have control of most of our data and it is easy for it to be used against us. We saw this during the 2016 election where Facebook essentially spread misinformation in a very targeted way to hurt significant progress in social change. ]]> 2021-11-15 23:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892550392 algorithms and confirming biases https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892551146 i think social change may come about more quickly! If there is an idea out there, it can more quickly gather like-minded people, confirm biases, and with algorithms, recruit more people are a quicker rate. 

]]> 2021-11-15 23:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892551146 i can see data being used to illustrate social issues more effectively https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892551151 2021-11-15 23:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892551151 What role can you see data playing in social movements and social change? albertzhan https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892551771 I think marginalized movements will still have a more difficult time getting exposure, if we blindly follow the data of consumption preferences (i.e. fb, twitter, etc). However, I believe that carefully designed algorithms can extract meaningful data that will help social movements steer into the right direction, and bring beneficial social change]]> 2021-11-15 23:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892551771 Role of Data https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892552631 - Dialers for phone banking
- slack etc for communication 
- youtube etc for visual storytelling 

data is an integrated part of any system that involves dissemination of lots of information. I can’t see the prompt anymore so i forgot where i was going with this]]> 2021-11-15 23:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892552631 Data playing more active role in social movement https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892552780 for example, Facebook has been used as a tool to initialize social movement as suggested by the reading last week]]> 2021-11-15 23:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892552780 What leads? https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892552925 I think the social movement typically comes first, and the data collection comes after that. Data gets collected because someone wants to show something or do something with it.]]> 2021-11-15 23:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892552925 More data --> more accountability, support, evidence https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892553165 The world is pretty obsessed with numbers/data so I feel like tacking on numbers to stories could make social change even more powerful]]> 2021-11-15 23:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892553165 https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892553324 Data could be used as surveillance, but it can also be leveraged by social movements to more effectively share information, the idea of working to figure out the algorithm to better reach people. ]]> 2021-11-15 23:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892553324 Data can override underlying social issues https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892553631 Data is not necessarily reflective of the issues at hand, and an overreliance on data may overlook what data actually represents, and if it is useful or not.

]]> 2021-11-15 23:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892553631 https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892554153 I think it really depends on how people use data in these social movements. I think that analyzing data with different lenses can really affect how we use that data in these movements.]]> 2021-11-15 23:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892554153 excited by data's capacity to leverage power https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892554253 the state/police is always surveilling us, but data has a democratic potential for us to turn the "surveilling" back on them / hold them accountable]]> 2021-11-15 23:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892554253 I'm depressed https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892554695 Data (in the statistical sense) lends movements credibility, but also is unlikely to convince on it's own. Recent years have shown us that propaganda matters significantly more than hard facts and so the biggest influence will come from utilizing data to most effectively spread your message in palatable forms]]> 2021-11-15 23:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892554695 It matters who collect the data https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892555994 If data is collected from above, to serve the purposes of governments or companies, it won't necessarily reflect the experience of people who aren't in power.]]> 2021-11-15 23:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_roberson4/lecture1115/wish/1892555994