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With and Against Transparency: Taking a Critical Look at How “Transparency” is Taken Up in Data Justice Discourses

This paper critically looks at transparency as an accountability measure that is demanded from governance structures in data justice organizations. However, we need to consider how the politics of visibility asymmetrically affects marginalized communities as a result of their data being made visible. Often, appeals for transparency results in hyper-visibilizing the same communities that are already accompanied by intense undersight; therefore, I argue that we need to look beyond transparency to imagine alternative models of accountability.