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Alison Powell
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 58
Citations - 1220
Alison Powell is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Community organization. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1044 citations. Previous affiliations of Alison Powell include University of Oxford & Concordia University Wisconsin.
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Big Data from the bottom up
Nick Couldry,Alison Powell +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that an adequate response to the implications for governance raised by "Big Data" requires much more attention to agency and reflexivity than theories of "algorithmic power" have so far allowed.
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Big data from the bottom up
Nick Couldry,Alison Powell +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that an adequate response to the implications for governance raised by "Big Data" requires much more attention to agency and reflexivity than theories of "algorithmic power" have so far allowed.
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Democratizing production through open source knowledge: from open software to open hardware
TL;DR: A critical perspective is provided on how open source contributions to both software and hardware increase the opportunities for democratic participation in production, governance and knowledge exchange and how incongruities across different open-source cultures and communities of practice limit the democratic potential of these processes.
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Design for Existential Crisis in the Anthropocene Age
TL;DR: This work juxtapose the design of computing that offers hope with that which offers only distraction, proposes four modes to design for and makes a plea to avoid tools that encourage a blinkered existence at a time of great uncertainty and change.
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Design for Existential Crisis
TL;DR: This paper discusses aspects of humanity, such as the need for meaning, fulfillment, dignity and decency, which computers struggle to support but can easily undermine, and makes a plea to avoid Bovine Design.