Tensions in Data Journey Activities: Mobilising, Processing, Producing, and Re-purposing Data in Environmental Assessment Practice

Rikke Hagensby Jensen; Stine Schmieg Johansen; Nicolai Brodersen Hansen; Ashna Mahmood Zada; Peter Axel Nielsen

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Tensions in Data Journey Activities: Mobilising, Processing, Producing, and Re-purposing Data in Environmental Assessment Practice

Rikke Hagensby Jensen^*, Stine Schmieg Johansen, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Ashna Mahmood Zada, Peter Axel Nielsen

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Digital data shape work practices as they travel through space, time, and social situations. In turn, workers shape the materiality of data through different data-oriented activities. In this paper, we draw on theory of data journeys to develop and present a conceptual framework of four data-intensive activities: Producing, mobilising, processing, and re-purposing. Together, those activities capture entanglements of data transformations and data-intensive practices. We develop the framework through a qualitative study of digitisation in Environmental Assessment (EA) practice. EA practitioners reflect on their experiences working with digital environmental data through ten semi-structured and two interactive interviews. The paper offers two main contributions. First, we develop a data journey theoretical framework and show that it is useful as a unit of analysis for uncovering tensions in data-oriented activities. Second, we use these insights to outline a set of tensions for future design activities in the area of data work practices.

Original language	English
Article number	363
Journal	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume	7
Issue number	CSCW2
Pages (from-to)	1-23
Number of pages	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3610212
Publication status	Published - 4 Oct 2023
Event	CSCW '23: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW '23: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, New York, United States Duration: 14 Oct 2023 → 18 Oct 2023

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Conference	CSCW '23: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Location	CSCW '23: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	14/10/2023 → 18/10/2023

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environmental assessment
practice
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Tensions in Data Journey Activities: Mobilising, Processing, Producing, and Re-purposing Data in Environmental Assessment Practice. / Jensen, Rikke Hagensby ; Johansen, Stine Schmieg ; Hansen, Nicolai Brodersen et al.
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 7, No. CSCW2, 363, 04.10.2023, p. 1-23.

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