Reconfiguring surveillance futures for higher education using speculative data stories

Ross, J. and Wilson, A. (2023) Reconfiguring surveillance futures for higher education using speculative data stories. In: Bonderup Dohn, N., Jaldemark, J., Öberg, L.-M., Håkonsson Lindqvist, M., Ryberg, T. and de Laat, M. (eds.) Sustainable Networked Learning: Individual, Sociological and Design Perspectives. Series: Research in networked learning. Springer: Cham, pp. 19-33. ISBN 9783031427183 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-42718-3_2)

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Abstract

Surveillance in many higher education settings has become increasingly pervasive and fine-grained. Concerns are growing about negative impacts on learning relationships, exploitative commercial uses of collected student data, discriminatory practices, and even political, social, or physical harm inflicted because of surveillance and monitoring. At the same time, complex surveillance cultures in higher education make it difficult to disentangle personal and collective responsibility, understand the gap between intentions and impacts, or navigate the risks that can come with addressing these matters. In 2020, the Data Stories research project used speculative and co-design approaches to develop a ‘data stories’ storytelling tool. The project supported people working and studying in higher education to create and share anonymous stories about what the future of surveillance in higher education might look like. This chapter explores the context for this work and draws out some themes from these stories, exploring a range of responses to surveillance that are expressed in them. We describe how the data stories tool was mobilised to produce a space for people to make and share new meanings around surveillance, in the form of Participatory Speculative Fictions, which have potential for working with and possibly reconfiguring a range of networked learning futures.

Item Type:Book Sections
Keywords:Surveillance, higher education, speculative methods, co-design, storytelling, datafication, participatory speculative fiction.
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Wilson, Dr Anna
Authors: Ross, J., and Wilson, A.
Subjects:H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Education
College of Social Sciences > School of Education > People, Place & Social Change
Publisher:Springer
ISBN:9783031427183
Copyright Holders:© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
First Published:First published in Sustainable Networked Learning: Individual, Sociological and Design Perspectives
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with publisher policy
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