Data & Society

Nov 19 2024 123 ep. 44 mins 1.9k

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Presenting timely conversations about the purpose and power of technology that bridge our interdisciplinary research with broader public conversations about the societal implications of data and automation. For more information, visit datasociety.net.

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Living in the Shadow of AI and Data (Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia) | Network Book Forum

Nov 19 2024 62 mins

Code Dependent spans stories from across the globe and calls attention to the voices of ordinary people as they navigate the everyday challenges of living with data-driven systems and work to reclaim their agency. In the process, author Madhumita Murgia invites a deeper reflection on these systems and how they interact with human ethics and judgment. Learn more in this Data & Socie

Data & Society at 10: Foreseeable Futures

Oct 16 2024 88 mins

Foreseeable Futures, held on September 26, 2024, was a celebration of Data & Society at 10, where we celebrated our first decade with our incredible network of alumni, friends, and supporters.

[Databite 160] Black Maternal Health is in Crisis. Can Technology Help?

Jul 22 2024 58 mins

In this Databite discussion, Mukogosi spoke with Dr. Mary Fleming and Ijeoma Uche about the facts and future of data-driven maternal care for Black patients. Reckoning with the decline of Black maternal health amid advancements in clinical technologies, they discussed the implications of an increasingly data-driven response to the Black maternal health crisis.

[Podcast] The Formalization of Social Precarities

May 16 2024 81 mins

The Formalization of Social Precarities podcast explores platformization from the point of view of precarious gig workers in the Majority World. This conversation was moderated by Aiha Nguyen and Murali Shanmugavelan featuring the voices of Ambika Tandon, Ludmilla Costhek Abílio, and Ananya Raihan. You will also be hearing the experience of two platform workers interviewed for thi

[Databite 159] Doing the Work: Therapeutic Labor, Teletherapy, and the Platformization of Mental Health Care

May 09 2024 60 mins

Data & Society’s report, Doing the Work: Therapeutic Labor, Teletherapy, and the Platformization of Mental Health Care, written by Livia Garofalo, explores how these new arrangements of therapeutic labor are affecting how therapists provide care and make a living in the US. By focusing on the experiences of providers who practice teletherapy and work for digital platforms, our re

[Databite 158] Adaptation | Generative AI's Labor Impacts

Apr 23 2024 59 mins

Predominant narratives that cast workers as replaceable hide the ways in which workers are actively responding to generative AI. Many build new skills and tools to their advantage while others sabotage, counteract and otherwise circumvent these systems. The relationship workers have with technology is much more dynamic, contested and layered. Narratives that cast workers as replace

What's Trust Got To Do With It? | 'Trust Issues' Workshop Public Panel

Mar 27 2024 63 mins

In a conversation moderated by D&S Principal Researcher Sareeta Amrute, panelists Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Irene Solaiman, and Jason D’Cruz discussed how practitioners, theorists, and community members approach the fraught issue of trust inside and outside institutions. Together, they considered how legacies of racism, dehumanization, refusal, and opacity inform trust — how

Data In/Visibility (Queer Data Studies) | Network Book Forum

Feb 23 2024 60 mins

Queer people have long been rendered invisible by data systems: survey questions that impose gendered binaries, inquiries that dismiss queer subjects as unimportant or insignificant, and ahistorical erasures of queer life that push queer experiences and knowledge further into the margins. Yet visibility also comes with risk. Digital and biomedical surveillance, personal data breac

[Databite No. 157] Recognition | Generative AI's Labor Impacts

Feb 13 2024 66 mins

In labor parlance, “recognition” is the pathway by which workers become a union. In what other ways can we recognize the value of work — beyond the form it takes? With artists and models finding that generative AI reduces them to their image, their words on a page, notes in a song, and even their measurements, how does this emerging technology diminish the value of workers an

[Databite No. 156] Hierarchy | Generative AI's Labor Impacts

Jan 22 2024 60 mins

Developers claim generative AI will have sweeping impacts that transform work as we know it, creating new opportunities for workers and unleashing dramatic waves of creativity. But this technology will not affect everyone equally: Societal biases and embedded hierarchies that inform who and what type of work is valuable will also influence how generative AI is rolled out and who be