Our Research
“Bettering Data”: The Role of Everyday Language and Visualization in Critical Novice Data Work
Shapiro, B. R., Meng, A., Rothschild, A., Gilliam, S., Garrett, C., DiSalvo, C., & DiSalvo, B.
Educational Technology & Society
2022
Informed by critical data literacy efforts to promote social justice, this paper uses qualitative methods and data collected during two years of workplace ethnography to characterize the notion of critical…
Interrogating Data Work as a Community of Practice
Annabel Rothschild, Amanda Meng, Carl DiSalvo, Britney Johnson, Ben Rydal Shapiro, and Betsy DiSalvo
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2022
We apply Lave & Wenger’s construct of a community of practice to identify and position members of the data work community of practice, focusing on members on the periphery who…
Towards fair and pro-social employment of digital pieceworkers for sourcing machine learning training data
Annabel Rothschild, Justin Booker, Christa Davoll, Jessica Hill, Venise Ivey, Carl DiSalvo, Benjamin Rydal Shapiro, and Betsy DiSalvo
’2022: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2022
This work contributes to just and pro-social treatment of digital pieceworkers (“crowd collaborators”) by reforming the handling of crowd-sourced labor in academic venues. With the rise in automation, crowd collaborators…
Understanding civic and non-profit data through a custom data lifecycle
Annabel Rothschild, Carl DiSalvo, Amanda Wooten, and Betsy DiSalvo
Investigating Data Work Across Domains: New Perspectives on the Work of Creating Data workshop at CHI 2022
2022
This report details our experience creating a graphic to help track how data flows through our organization, DataWorks. DataWorks specializes in data cleaning and standardization services for civic and non-profits,…
Towards a Community-Defined Framework for Responsible Digital Piecework Requests.
Annabel Rothschild, Carl DiSalvo, and Betsy DiSalvo
The Global Labours of AI and Data Intensive Systems workshop at CSCW 2021
2021
Our understanding of the poor treatment of digital pieceworkers informs our desire to create alternative, sustainable employment options for full-time data-focused piecework. We describe the results of a three day…
Exploring Approaches to Data Literacy Through a Critical Race Theory Perspective.
Johnson, Britney, Ben Rydal Shapiro, Betsy DiSalvo, Annabel Rothschild, and Carl DiSalvo
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2021
In this paper, we describe and analyze a workshop developed for a work training program called DataWorks. In this workshop, data workers chose a topic of their interest, sourced and…