Liinc em Revista

Dossier: Critical Metrics: Representativeness, Access, and Democratization of Data - Deadline extended: May 10th, 2024

Coordinators:

•⁠ ⁠Dr. Fabio Gouveia (Coordinator and Professor of the Graduate Program in Information Science under the cooperation agreement between the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – PPGCI IBICT UFRJ)
•⁠ ⁠Dr. Ronaldo Ferreira Araújo (Professor of the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Alagoas – PPGCI UFAL and the Graduate Program in Knowledge Management and Organization at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – PPGGOC UFMG. Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies – CWTS, Leiden University, Netherlands)

This issue of Liinc in Revista addresses the political discussion of information metric studies in their strategic role for representativeness and democratic open access to data. It also encompasses the debate on the production of a public sphere mediated by discursiveness constituted over the numerated layer of networked machines, under the control of big tech companies, which threaten the slow advances of the democratic process.