ABSTRACT

With the increased use of data in the governance of education, studies on how human beings interact with data become increasingly important. Recent scholarship has conceptualized human responses to data through the notion of affectivity. While this conceptualization offers a viable alternative to previous rational choice theorizations of human responses to data that over-emphasize rational though, it in turn under-emphasizes rational thought. This paper theorizes human responses to data as a matter of being set in motion by data, a term that includes rational thought, affect, and other responses. Through the philosophy of agential realism and an empirical analysis of various actors engaging with Danish graduate unemployment data, the paper elaborates how data and human beings (among other entities) intra-act and how human beings are affected by data, both in terms of what the data articulate and in terms of a code of conduct for dealing with data.

摘要

随着数据在教育治理中的使用越来越多，研究人类如何与数据交互变得越来越重要。最近的学术研究通过情感概念将人类对数据的反应概念化。虽然这种概念化提供了一种可行的替代方案，以替代以前关于人类对数据的反应的理性选择理论，尽管这些理论过分强调理性，但它反过来又低估了理性思维。本文将人类对数据的反应理论化为由数据启动的问题，一个包括理性思维、影响和其他反应的术语。通过代理现实主义的哲学和对参与丹麦毕业生失业数据的各种参与者的实证分析，本文阐述了数据和人类（以及其他实体）如何相互作用以及人类如何受到数据的影响，无论是在什么方面数据阐明了处理数据的行为准则。