In the first instance of the Women in Dialogue Series, we have the pleasure of welcoming danah boyd. The interview will examine AI as a world-building project, from which many women are frequently excluded - in no small part because the AI futures that they imagine do not align with those who control the networks, the capital and the power at the heart of the current “AI project“. The interview will also touch upon danah’s upcoming book Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, which will be published this autumn.

danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. She studies the intersection of technology and society. Her upcoming book “Data are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census” is an ethnography of the US Census Bureau, Jenga politics, and the struggle to make democracy’s data in 2020. Her monograph “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” examined young people's use of social media. Dr. boyd founded Data & Society and is currently a fellow of AAAS and a trustee of the Computer History Museum.

The interview series takes place online (Zoom), and is open for everyone.

The event takes place Wednesday September 16 from 5-6 PM (CEST).

To join the event, please sign up using this form. We will send a link to the Zoom in advance of the event.