Events

IDM Colloquium: Data Feminism with Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein

Technology, Culture and Society
Academic,
Lecture / Panel
 
For NYU Community
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For the final IDM Colloquium for this semester, we are thrilled to host Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, authors of the new book, Data Feminism that was published with MIT Press in March. This project presents a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics — one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.

Please register here, and we will send out a zoom link to the online talk prior to the event.

Catherine D’Ignazio

Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy, and civic engagement. She has run breast pump hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea-level rise. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & the humanities has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Civic Media and Data Visualization in the Journalism Department at Emerson College, a Senior Fellow at the Emerson Engagement Lab and a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Civic Media & MIT Media Lab. Learn more: www.kanarinka.com.

Lauren F. Klein

Lauren F. Klein is a scholar and teacher whose work crosses the fields of data visualization, digital humanities, and media history, among others. She has designed platforms for exploring the contents of historical newspapers, recreated forgotten visualization schemes with fabric and addressable LEDs, and, with her students, cooked meals from early American recipes—and then visualized the results. Her writing has appeared in American Literature, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and Feminist Media Studies, among other venues. With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. Klein is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. Learn more: www.lklein.com.