https://xitter.cf/t.co/XlJGOz1ank | Author of Predatory Data (UCP 2025) and Networking Peripheries (MIT Press 2014). Relocated to @anitachan.bsky.social
Info Sciences/Media, U. of Ill
Joined September 2009
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Does Big Tech have a eugenics problem? Here's @wrongrrl in San Francisco Chronicle discussing..
The author examines how today’s Big Tech relies on data that exploits women, immigrants and other marginalized groups in perpetuating inequalities. trib.al/MXQWeLb
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How may #BigData's dream of timelessness be countered through #CriticalPedagogy?
@wrongrrl on #pedagogy of #SituatedData in #community archives — the #BiologicalComputerLab + #CommunityDataClinic at @UofIllinois: doi.org/nvz3
Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p4g880
ALT Black and white drawing of electric circuits. Taken from the "Whole University Catalog" by Heinz von Foerster and Students of 1968 Heuristics Class, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: https://bit.ly/3zRyboK.
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Many thanks to @wrongrrl for delivering the keynote address at this year’s @SIGCIS meeting!
Her forthcoming book on eugenics & Big Tech (Predatory Data) should be on every #histSTM & #STS scholar’s reading list: ucpress.edu/book/97805204028…
#SIGCIS2024
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Congrats to faculty members @victorfont63 & Anita Say Chan @wrongrrl, who were named recipients of the 2024-25 Chancellor’s Call to Action Research Program to address system bias and social injustice through cross-disciplinary research.
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📣New! In "Doing the Work," D&S Researcher @livgar_ examines the changing realities for mental health professionals in the US as therapeutic labor is restructured by teletherapy services and digital platforms. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/doin…
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In a conversation with @justinhendrix, @jennaburrell @undersequoias @xriskology and Shazeda Ahmed discussed the First Monday edition on AI, which looks at how some voices, views, and approaches to AI become amplified, while others do not.
techpolicy.press/podcast-res…
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Thanks to @township_s, @CU_PublicHealth, @HAofChampaign, Project Success, @wrongrrl, @julianchin_uiuc, Evan Allgood, Aisaiah Pellecer, Harshi Vetrivel, Kaylee Janakos, Lauren Ravury, and Will Schermer.
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You won’t want to miss hearing about her work to match after-school programs with the interest of every child in our community!
Thanks to @township_s, @CU_PublicHealth, @HAofChampaign, Project Success, @wrongrrl, @julianchin_uiuc, Evan Allgood, Aisaiah Pellecer, . . . 🧵 (2/3)
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A huge thank you to our community partners, @township_s, @CU_PublicHealth, @HAofChampaign, and Project Success, and to our incredible team at the Community Data Clinic, @wrongrrl, @julianchin_uiuc, Evan Allgood, Aisaiah Pellecer, and Harshi Vetrivel (1/3)
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Tune in to hear about the various educational resources offered through institutions like Parkland College and Cunningham Township right here in our Champaign-Urbana Community. Episode Link in our bio.
@township_s, @CU_PublicHealth, @HAofChampaign, @wrongrrl, @julianchin_uiuc
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Please share widely. Great program at a great School.
Very interdisciplinary faculty and students.
The #iSchoolUI Postdoctoral Research Associate Program prepares future faculty in information sciences and related disciplines. Applications are currently being accepted for the 2024-25 academic year!
For more information and how to apply, visit: bit.ly/3SMwejU
ALT School of Information Sciences Postdoctoral Research Associate Program application deadline: March 15, 2024
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Join Pt3 - #DecolonizingDataInfrastructures-Pluralizing Imaginaries + Hist of Datafication on Solidarities NOW Thurs Nov. 9 at @4sWeb 2023! w/ @yhassan, Mohsin Yousufi, Esteban Moralez, Katherine Reilly, Juan Ortiz Freuler + @chamee22 moderating! ZOOM Link:events.zoom.us/.../sessions/…
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It was an amazing panel! So nice to meet you & hope to cross paths again soon!
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This is available now through @IJoC_USC ! With "cultural infrastructure," @pyo_jane and I try to think about why diasporic users stick to “all-in-one” apps with regional dominance (WeChat and KakaoTalk) despite comprised socioeconomic utilities. ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/arti…
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Very happy to share the program of the @4sWeb conference on Nov 8th that will take place in Honolulu. Unfortunately, I won't be able to join them in person but I hope my online contribution is as enjoyable :)
Thrilled to work w/ @yhassan @chamee22 & Paola Ricuarte for the #DecolonizingDataInfrastructures panels at @4sWeb's 2023 Conference! Stay tuned for 22 papers by @courtmcox @barbararlaz @Radhika_Gorur @chipkalii & @MaywaMontenegro & others! #4sHonolulu23 4sonline.org/preliminary_pro…
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Disability Justice… what does it mean? What can computer scientists do with it and about it? Find out at the workshop on Oct 13-14. Organized by @just_infras w/ @kkarahal @wrongrrl , and help from @IllinoisCS
Register at the link here!
Thanks to all who attended the last @just_infras speaker series (just-infras.illinois.edu/spe…)! Join us October 13 for the first event of this year's thematic--Disability Justice, just-infras.illinois.edu/dis… at @UofIllinois, w\ @autistichoya, @FractalEcho, Akemi Nishida, & more.
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Next Wed. Sep. 20 at 5pm (MIT 9-451), please join the Data + Feminism Lab and Tierra Común at Data, Bodies, Territories: a conversation on Global Majority challenges to data colonialism with Paola Ricaurte, @JulianPosada0, @kanarinka, and yours truly.
ALT Flyer for Data + Feminism Lab and Tierra Común event titled "Data + bodies + territories," to be held at MIT on September 20, 2023, at 5pm.