This essay presents data artifacts that accompany the journal article "Teaching the Politics of Numbers with EthnoData," published in the journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society.
Cite this dataset:
Suarez, Maka, Jorge Núñez, Mayra Flores. 2024. "Data for 'Teaching the Politics of Numbers with EthnoData'." Multi-part. Version 1. Distributed by Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. STS Infrastructures (Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography).
https://n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4vg6q
Essay created by:
ESTS Assistant Editor Clément Dréano and Open Data Editor Tim Schütz
A broad movement in the scholarly community is pushing towards data sharing or “Open Data,” particularly in the natural sciences and medicine. Recognizing that there are compelling reasons why scholars in STS and related fields are wary of data sharing and careful to protect their work, the ESTS Editorial Collective (EC) has pursued experiments towards establishing a publishing infrastructure for open data with the goal of better understanding the possible benefits for the STS community from data sharing and the role that a scholarly-run journal like ESTS could play in realizing such opportunities. Our approach develops from a commitment to recognize and foster the data relations we most value as a heterogeneous community of scholars and interlocutors. We have partnered with STS Infrastructures, an instance of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) designed and built by STS scholars, to understand what “Open Data” can mean in/ for STS, and develop norms, practices, and infrastructures that match the kinds of data that we work with. Read more about our understanding and approach to open data. Explore all ESTS published data.
The poster provided as source data is the "Sample clues from a digital scavenger hunt in EthnoData." These clues were used by a team of researchers from Kaleidos, University of Cuenca, during a virtual class taught online during the Covid-19 pandemic in December of 2020.
This document is relevant in the context of our contribution because it allows users to see the kinds of questions that were asked to students while exploring Kaleidos’ multimodal digital platform, EthnoData, which combines statistic data on violent deaths and ethnographic essays that critically engage with this information.
The datasets used in the platform as well as the essays are freely and openly available on EthnoData’s website (https://www.ethnodata.org/es-es/). The sample clues from the digital scavenger hunt are not available online as they were part of a side activity organized for undergrad students. For this, we are making these clues available as a pedagogical tool used previously in a teaching context to explore how people interacted with our digital platform when provided with an interactive exercise.
There are different ways we see this material being useful to others in the STS community. First, it can serve as an example of a didactic exercise used in the context of multimedia and multimodal digital platforms for innovatively engaging with materials. Users can, if they wish, follow the clues while using the platform as an experimental approach. Though some understanding of the Spanish language will be necessary, it is possible to “move” around the platform guided by these clues. Finally, we hope it can lead to further and ongoing conversations and inquiries around “devious designs” as Lindsay Poirier has called them, of data infrastructures and their potential for responsive scholarship.
