Burcu Baykurt on how Kansas City officials and civic entrepreneurs ignored the needs of already-vulnerable groups, downplayed their legitimate concerns about automated surveillance, and neglected the “data deserts” that they had created.
Podcast: Nathan Matias, “Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society”
How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT’s Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
Podcast: Sun-ha Hong, “Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty”
Struggles with “big” data and surveillance are not just a question of privacy and security, but how promises of knowledge and its bounty enact a redistribution of authority
Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty
Sun-ha Hong on how “big” data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
Drawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
