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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"data practices"”.
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The Tools of Management: Data Practices for Worker Advocacy
This dissertation explores the impact of data-driven approaches to worker advocacy. I combine historical and design research, organized around a case study of management-engineering projects conducted by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). I survey how workplace data been used …
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Data makes perfect. Urban Ergonomics and data practices in design
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The Rise of a Technoscientific Third Pole: Environmental Data Practices in High Mountain Asia
… A region with a dearth of in-situ environmental data and opaque, fragmented governance, remote sensing data plays a key role in uncovering the region’s environmental concerns. These range from disasters such as flooding and earthquakes that have devastated the region to the glacial melt that …
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Open government data intermediaries : mediating data to drive changes in the built environment
In recent years open data initiatives, which make government data publicly available in a machine-readable format for reuse and redistribution, have proliferated, driven by the launch of open-data government initiatives such as data.gov and data.gov.uk. Research on open data has focused on its …
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Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
… visualizing, circulating, and manipulating data to understand the persuasive force of visual information in multimodal media. From the history of haptic interfaces to the data practices of social media communities across the US and China, this thesis uses historical and ethnographic methods …
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Data for Housing Justice: Examining Activists’ Use of Open Government Data for Housing Justice in Boston, MA and New York, NY
… the world over have expanded access to public data through open government data (OGD) portals, from the local to national levels. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development describes OGD as a philosophy and a set of politics that aims to serve three social, political, and …
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MTSS for Equity: A Mixed-Methods Study of Policy Alignment and Achievement Gaps in Three States
… Many districts struggle to establish coherent, data-driven interventions when state policies offer unclear or inconsistent directives on mitigating achievement gaps. Purpose: This research explores (1) how Texas, Florida, and Iowa differ in their MTSS frameworks and policy guidance; (2) how each …
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Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States
… this thesis, I explore the ethics of educational data collection associated with standardized testing in K-12 schools in the United States. While the public has become aware of issues surrounding data collection, distribution, and analysis in online spaces, this discourse has not fully extended …
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Civic Hacking for the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy
… to privacy against government oversharing of data. Thus, in order to develop better standards of practice for civic hackers in crisis mitigation, it is important to understand the ethical dilemmas that they face. This research focuses on South Korean civic hacking activities during the crisis …
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A Systems Approach to Understanding Challenges in Preserving User Privacy
… collection and processing of personal data has raised significant concerns about customer privacy. Ensuring customer privacy is vital for ethical data use and building trust. However, enterprises may need to enhance their efforts to safeguard customer privacy effectively. Customers have …
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Feminicide Data: Configuring Multiplicity in Practice
… study to assess the multiplicity of feminicide data practices. Various global institutions, national governments, and citizens on the ground engage in counting the gender-related killing of women and girls, resulting in different versions of feminicide data. In 2022 alone, the United Nations …
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Transparency and Control about Privacy in Data-Driven Online Services: An Investigation of Design Choices and Users' Data Disclosure Decision-Making
As modern online services are increasingly data-driven, users’ data disclosure is becoming a decisive factor for the success of companies' business models. Extensive disclosure of personal data raises concerns for users’ privacy that managers of online services and regulators need to address. …
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Operationalizing Cultural Warrant in Knowledge Organization
Data representation of diverse cultures, perspectives, and identities has stepped to the fore in society, especially with the academy’s increasing attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The failure to provide descriptions that are inclusive to diverse cultures and perspectives can hinder …
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Strategy and methodology for enterprise data warehouse development. Integrating data mining and social networking techniques for identifying different communities within the data warehouse.
Data warehouse technology has been successfully integrated into the information infrastructure of major organizations as potential solution for eliminating redundancy and providing for comprehensive data integration. Realizing the importance of a data warehouse as the main data repository within an …
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Stranger Danger? Three Essays on Consumer Trust and Data Disclosure in Multi-Actor Environments
… other actors. Incidents range from unauthorized data sharing to illegal surveillance, identity theft, and financial fraud. Consumers’ skepticism poses challenges for firms, requiring strategic measures that not only foster consumer engagement with the network but also help build trust in the …
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Adopting research data management (RDM) practices at the University of Namibia (UNAM): a view from researchers
This study investigated the extent of Research Data Management (RDM) adoption at the University of Namibia (UNAM), viewing it from the researcher’s perspective. The objectives of the study were to investigate the extent to which RDM has been adopted as part of the research process at UNAM, to …