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May 24, 2021 1 hr

Becoming Data Episode 2: Data & Labor

from Data & Society Hosted by Chris Ramsaroop, Natalie Kerby, Shaka McGlotten

Scholar Shaka McGlotten and 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, the labor of making ourselves visible to data-centric systems, and the different ways that people, and more specifically workers, are resisting datafication. Shaka McGlotten (@shakaz23) is a professor of anthropology and media studies at Purchase College, SUNY and 2020-2021 Faculty Fellow at Data & Society. Chris Ramsaroop (@j4mw) is an organizer with Justice for Migrant Workers and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. "Becoming Data" is co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books.

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Shaka McGlotten and Chris Ramsaroop discuss the history of human labor being quantified as data.

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