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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?
Ranjit Singh (@datasociety) is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Data & Society.
Laura Forlano (@laura4lano) is associate professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology.
"Becoming Data" is co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books.
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