Data and Infrastructure (with Laura Forlano & Ranjit Singh)

Episode 4 • June 06, 2021 • 00:54:19
Data and Infrastructure (with Laura Forlano & Ranjit Singh)
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Data and Infrastructure (with Laura Forlano & Ranjit Singh)

Jun 06 2021 | 00:54:19

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Show Notes

Scholars Laura Forlano and Ranjit Singh join our host, Natalie Kerby, to explore the different infrastructures that data interacts with and flows through. Whose values get embedded into the algorithms that increasingly govern our lives? How are these data infrastructures complicating what it means to be human? 

 

This season, "Becoming Data," is a partnership between the magazine Public Books and the research institution Data & Society. Follow us on Twitter @PublicBooks and @DataSociety.

 

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