[New post] Labours of g0v: Rethinking Work from the Perspective of Data Activists

samluowei posted: " Written by Aaron Su Image credit: Photo by Tankaku CC BY 4.0 This August, I sat at a roundtable with Ting Chih-Jen (丁志仁), an older man and long-time educator who has been active in promoting experimental reforms for Taiwanese public schools from th" Taiwan Insight <strong>Labours of g0v: Rethinking Work from the Perspective of Data Activists</strong> samluowei Oct 11 Written by Aaron Su. How does such civic tech activism – whose results have indeed been transformative – proceed amidst limited resources and a wide variety of training and vocations? Beyond the material outputs of g0v, we must also not forget what activists and scholars have had to say about the distribution of infrastructural or emotional labour within grassroots or activist communities. There are members whose caretaking, organizing, and managing help to reproduce the bare conditions for activist work in the first place. Others have further written about the particular costs of serving as a digital activist, noting that such practices often intensify demands on members in ways inflected by class background, gender, and other social factors. Read more of this post Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Taiwan Insight. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://taiwaninsight.org/2022/10/11/labours-of-g0v-rethinking-work-from-the-perspective-of-data-activists/ Powered by WordPress.com