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Toward Information Justice

Technology, Politics, and Policy for Data in Higher Education Administration

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Authors:
  1. Jeffrey Alan Johnson

    1. Institutional Effectiveness, Planning, and Accreditation Support, Utah Valley University, Orem, USA

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  • Presents a new and comprehensive approach to the problems of information-driven societies that is valuable to data scientists, social and political actors, and academics
  • Offers an important alternative to the scientistic understanding of data and information systems that predominates among data users, which will change how decisionmakers see and use data
  • Creates both a social theory of information and a practical guide for creating and using it to pursue social justice?

Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT, volume 33)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 1-22

  3. Open Data, Big Data, and Just Data

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 23-49

  4. The Construction of Data

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 51-81

  5. The Political Life of Metrics

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 83-105

  6. Distributive Information Justice (And Its Limits)

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 107-131

  7. Structural Information Justice

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 133-159

  8. Toward a Praxis of Information Justice

    • Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Pages 161-175
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About this book

This book presents a theory of information justice that subsumes the question of control and relates it to other issues that influence just social outcomes. ​Data does not exist by nature. Bureaucratic societies must provide standardized inputs for governing algorithms, a problem that can be understood as one of legibility. This requires, though, converting what we know about social objects and actions into data, narrowing the many possible representations of the objects to a definitive one using a series of translations. Information thus exists within a nexus of problems, data, models, and actions that the social actors constructing the data bring to it. This opens information to analysis from social and moral perspectives, while the scientistic view leaves us blind to the gains from such analysis—especially to the ways that embedded values and assumptions promote injustice. Toward Information Justice answers a key question for the 21st Century: how can an information-driven society be just? Many of those concerned with the ethics of data focus on control over data, and argue that if data is only controlled by the right people then just outcomes will emerge. There are serious problems with this control metaparadigm, however, especially related to the initial creation of data and prerequisites for its use. This text is suitable for academics in the fields of information ethics, political theory, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies, as well as policy professionals who rely on data to reach increasingly problematic conclusions about courses of action.​

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institutional Effectiveness, Planning, and Accreditation Support, Utah Valley University, Orem, USA

    Jeffrey Alan Johnson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Toward Information Justice

  • Book Subtitle: Technology, Politics, and Policy for Data in Higher Education Administration

  • Authors: Jeffrey Alan Johnson

  • Series Title: Public Administration and Information Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70894-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70892-8Published: 31 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89004-3Published: 06 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70894-2Published: 09 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2512-1812

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-1839

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 175

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Administration, Political Theory, Database Management

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