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?
Episode 4: Data & Infrastructure
Laura Forlano & Ranjit Singh
Becoming Data
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Public Books
About the Guests
Ranjit Singh (@datasociety) is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Data & Society.
Laura Forlano (@laura4lano of @IITdesign) is associate professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology.
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