Data in the making, political struggle, and epistemic (in)justice: Asian and Asian Americans as early responders to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

作者：Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Jiyoung Lee, Everet Wang, Tammy Tasker, Denise Jones, Paola Nkwuzor, Christopher Batalon, Francisco Parra Camacho, Peter Siciliano, Elizabeth A. Davis, Angela Calabrese Barton · 发表于：New Media & Society · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1177/14614448231226400 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Disaster Management and Resilience、Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics、Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the limits of big data to guide decision-making in times of crisis. As people navigated daily life, they were confronted with the reality that data were often not yet material but rather in-the-making. Drawing upon critical and feminist lenses and participatory methodologies, this study investigates the data stories of nine people of Asian descent living in the United States. Findings illustrate how participants navigated within and across time, space, activity, media, epistemology, race, and politics to produce lively data assemblages. These data stories guided social-distancing and mask-wearing weeks before official US policy even as participants lived in constant fear of dehumanizing racist and xenophobic violence. This study advances theorizing about data practices for human knowing and learning with media, racial and epistemic (in)justice, and community action. It also advances participatory research as a site of epistemic resistance and activism.