What gets counted counts and Introduction to
Readings
Burghart, B. “What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings.” Gawker, August 2014.
The Dollar and Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women FiveThirtyEight, April 2014.
Ch. 4, ““What Gets Counted Counts” in: D’ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data feminism. MIT press.
Optional video
In class we will walk through the Bechdel project (data from the Hollywood exclusion of women reading) in RStudio. This exercise is borrowed from a really great course, and you are welcome to watch a video walkthrough of the Bechdel project as well:
Discussion question
What is the relationship between power and data? What does this mean for us as data users or collectors?
Assignments Due
None