Great to see these ideas now in an article. Congrats, Kean!

Thanks!

Muchas gracias, Andrea!

The article advocates for a study of data production that accounts for contexts where the dominant feature is institutional and material precarity. In our case, we found actors attempting to maintain a delicate balance between inadequate legal rules, scarce resources, and sociopolitical demands. 4/4

2) Mundane creativity: given the rigidity of the system, bureaucrats had to use rule-bending tactics and find workarounds in their quotidian tasks to keep producing data. In other words, paradoxically, they had to routinely subvert the rules of the system to make it work for their local reality. 3/4

We found 2 dynamics among bureaucrats. 1) Algorithmic alienation: when they did not see a correlation between their perception of local poverty and the system's economic classifications, they felt a sense of powerlessness and meaninglessness in relation to working for an opaque automated system. 2/4