While the concept of data publics is rooted in the western notion of publics as a counterweight to state practices, the Korean case illustrates how data publics can complement, and even partner with the state, particularly when framed within the affective relations of patriotism. [...] The purpose of this essay is to highlight the importance of connecting contextualized and historically grounded accounts of public formation and evolution to the study of data publics. [...] Global Open Data Movement and the Emergence of Data Publics The emergence of the global open data movement in the early 2010s aimed to enhance government transparency and accountability by releasing pub- lic sector information in digital formats. [...] Open data initiatives were strongly influenced by the open-source movement in the 1990s–2000s, which lies at Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 68 the heart of the Silicon Valley ideology of free software and counter-culture libertarianism.2 In the United States, open data became one of the central pillars of President Obama’s Open Government Initiative in 2009, with the goal of making. [...] Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 77 representational resource that frames the politics of data only through the issues of access.26 Instead, the infrastructure-oriented perspective takes into account the performative capacities of data infrastructures.
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