[CODATA-international] REMINDER - Re: CFP - OA Book Call for Contributions: Making a Difference! Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Mirko and I are just sending a reminder!  Hope you are all well.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:21 AM Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OA Book Call for Contributions:
>
> Making a Difference!
> Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society
>
> Background:
>
> Schäfer and Lauriault are critical, theoretical and practice based
> scholars who do data work within and beyond the academy. While doing so
> they have experienced the tension between the expectations of traditional
> forms of scholarly funded research, and doing novel forms of socially
> relevant empirical work. This rewarding research is engaged, and often
> involves relationship building with partners from  government, the private
> sector and civil society. This also requires relationship building, time,
> learning by doing, and knowledge mobilization often at odds with the
> publish or perish model.
>
> They want to hear from others whose research practices actually make a
> difference in the datafied society.  This edited book Making a
> Difference! Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society invites
> scholars, instructors, practitioners and professionals in academia,
> government, the private sector and civil society who do the same and want
> to share their critical, participatory and entrepreneurial data work to
> improve social and material outcomes, and create systems that are fair,
> accountable and transparent.
>
> Making a Difference! also matters in the classroom, especially with
> students at different stages in their academic and professional life
> trajectories who seek impactful and meaningful learning opportunities. This
> is also true in boardrooms, as there is also the call for evidence-informed
> decision making and for responsible data practices. It has proven difficult
> for many however to balance the traditional mission of the university and
> the desire to have a positive impact on society. This is especially the
> case when doing data work with practitioners, administrators and
> professionals. Some in the university are adapting and evolving their
> research practices in unique and interesting ways, others are doing
> critical research outside the academy, and some are doing both. We want to
> hear how you address these challenges.
>
> Making a Difference! will feature bold ideas from researchers,
> practitioners, designers, and instructors who have developed collaborative
> ways of doing critically informed data work. This may include digital
> methods and analytical approaches to conduct joint projects with
> government, media, corporations, and civil society partners. This work may
> be funded by both traditional and novel forms of financial arrangements.
> This direct engagement with external partners often connects research
> agendas to address urgent societal needs, which often allows students to
> incubate new ideas and create new occupations. In addition to reconfiguring
> relationships with practitioners, entrepreneurially minded scholars have
> maintained independence while producing rigorous and critical research.
> These emerging and mutually beneficial approaches to doing critically
> informed data work increasingly recognize team efforts, transdisciplinary
> cooperation, and entrepreneurial skills that have made difference.
>
> Chapters for this OA book will be between 3000-8000 words and will be
> organized into the following broad areas:
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>    Theoretically informed applied research;
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>    Methodological approaches to doing engaged and participatory research;
>    -
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>    Transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral research projects;
>    -
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>    Case studies (may be shorter chapters 3000-4000 words);
>    -
>
>    Novel pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning (3000-4000
>    words);
>    -
>
>    Position statements that identify pressing challenges about doing this
>    type of critically informed data work (could also be shorter chapters
>    3000-5000 words).
>
> The following is a list of potential topic areas:
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>    Action, engaged, and participatory scholarship and research
>    -
>
>    Entrepreneurial research (as an example see this video
>    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKk1kYgDHk>)
>    -
>
>    Socially transformative interdisciplinary collaborations
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>    Multi-sectoral team-based collaborations
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>
>    Applied basic research and practices from STEAM disciplines, in the
>    humanities, social and/or natural sciences, data science, HCI, etc.
>    -
>
>    Academic-community knowledge transfer
>    -
>
>    Co-creation, co-design and forms of public engagement
>    -
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>    Citizen science, crowdsourcing, and open data
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>
>    Engaged pedagogical approaches, community partners in the classroom;
>    multi-purpose assignments, and etc.
>    -
>
>    Maintaining impartiality, autonomy and research integrity with private
>    funding
>    -
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>    Scholars as experts, practitioner, and as academics
>    -
>
>    Impact measurers, metrics, indicators, and theory of change
>    -
>
>    Data practices that address equity & inclusion and anti racism,
>    sexism, LGBTQ, ableism, Indigenous issues, labour, etc.
>    -
>
>    Other issues that arise from AI/ML, data infrastructures, systems, and
>    technologies through these novel forms of conducting research
>    -
>
>    Suggest an idea!
>
> Making a Difference! Will be organized as follows.
>
> 1. Theoretical Approaches about doing critically informed
> transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral data work that challenge traditional
> humanities and social science scholarship
>
> In this section chapters (3000-8000 words) contextualize emergent forms of
> engaged scholarship through in-depth theoretical reflections about how to
> transform the academic status quo in terms of research and pedagogy. Here
> we also imagine chapters that might include methodological and pedagogical
> approaches.
>
> 2. Case Studies about Doing Critically Engaged Data Work
>
> Chapters here might be shorter (3000-5000 words) and include one or more
> case studies that apply theory and describe novel approaches to engaged
> research, teaching and collaboration. We are particularly interested in
> contributions that track a project’s societal impact, and that emphasize
> how challenges to traditional forms of university research have been
> overcome, including  those encountered by those outside the academy working
> with scholars.
>
> 3. Position Papers on Pressing Challenges
>
> Chapters here might address practical solutions to the challenges imposed
> by the transformation of the academy and societal needs for critically
> engaged data work. Authors would take a position on productive paths
> forward on topics such as (but not limited to) obtaining funding, ensuring
> research integrity, awarding recognition, avoiding cooptation, implementing
> new metrics, creating incentives, conducting open access and open data
> research, and conceptualizing new roles for researchers and students.
>
> About the editors:
>
> Mirko Tobias Schäfer is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, and
> a co-founder of the Utrecht Data School <https://dataschool.nl/en/>.
> m.t.schaefer at uu.nl
>
> Tracey P. Lauriault <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738> is Associate
> Professor of Critical Media and Big Data, School of Journalism and
> Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
> Tracey.Lauriault at Carleton.ca
>
> Contributions:
>
> We seek contributions from scholars, instructors, practitioners and
> professionals in academia, government, the private sector and civil
> society.
>
> We hope to receive works from any of the following: geography,
> anthropology, media studies, communication, journalism, organizational
> studies, business, public administration, sociology, social work, gender
> studies, criminology, philosophy, digital humanities, HCI, data science and
> others that do critically engaged data work for an open access book
> entitled Making a Difference! Novel Research Practices in the Datafied
> Society to be published by Amsterdam University Press by the spring of
> 2022.
>
> Submission Instructions:
>
> Please send a 250 word abstract proposal by August 13th, 2021 to both
> Mirko Schäfer, M.T. <m.t.schaefer at uu.nl> and Tracey P. Lauriault
> <Tracey.Lauriault at Carleton.ca>.
>
> In the subject line of your email, include:
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>    Making a Difference!
>
> In the body of your email include:
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>    -
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>    Chapter title
>    -
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>    Section you are submitting to
>    -
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>       Section 1: Theoretical approaches;
>       -
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>       Section 2: Case studies; or
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>       Section 3: Position papers.
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>    250 word abstract
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>    Name of author(s), title(s), institution(s), & email addresses.
>
>
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>    We will send out confirmations by August 30th, 2021
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>    First drafts are expected by November 30, 2021.
>
> We look forward to your submission!
> *Tracey & Mirko*
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> Associate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data
> Communication and Media Studies
> School of Journalism and Communication
> https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738
>


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Tracey P. Lauriault
Associate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data
Communication and Media Studies
School of Journalism and Communication
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738
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