Data and Labor (with Shaka McGlotten & Chris Ramsaroop)

Episode 2 May 23, 2021 01:00:53
Data and Labor (with Shaka McGlotten & Chris Ramsaroop)
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Data and Labor (with Shaka McGlotten & Chris Ramsaroop)

May 23 2021 | 01:00:53

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Show Notes

Interdisciplinary researcher Shaka McGlotten and scholar/activist Chris Ramsaroop join our host, Natalie Kerby, to discuss data in the context of labor. The episode addresses the historical ways that data has been used to organize labor and the different ways that people, and more specifically workers, are resisting datafication.

 

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.

 

View full episode notes and a transcript here.

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