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Presentation
Researching What Matters With Community Members: Session Introduction
Data Day 2015 (2015)
  • Michael P Johnson, Jr.
Abstract
Data and technology can and do change people’s lives, but most often they are conceived as market-driven entities, where changes in people’s lives arise from consumption of goods and services they pay for. Of course, government is a big user of technology and data, but impacts are usually aggregate in nature, not usually targeted at specific communities. Yet, with inequality and structural barriers to economic and social progress quite high in the U.S., can there be a way to think of data and technology as a means to support individual and group opportunity, engagement, action for social justice? The purpose of this introduction to the panel "Researching What Matters with Community Members" is to learn how projects and initiatives that involve data, technology and analytics, framed by community engagement and inspired by participatory action research & community-based participatory research can generate findings that can make a difference in the lives of underserved and underrepresented communities, urban communities and communities of color.
Keywords
  • Participatory action research,
  • community-based participatory research,
  • community data analytics,
  • community data measurement
Publication Date
June 26, 2015
Citation Information
Michael P Johnson. "Researching What Matters With Community Members: Session Introduction" Data Day 2015 (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_johnson/64/