Just Infrastructures: Claiming Democracy over Digital Infrastructures
Lilly Irani, associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, will give the talk, "Claiming Democracy over Digital Infrastructures, as part of the Just Infrastructures speaker series.
Irani is the author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019), which received the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for feminist anthropological research on work, science, or technology, including biomedicine. Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate, as both an ethnographer, a designer, and a former technology worker. She serves as faculty in the Design Lab, Institute for Practical Ethics, the program in Critical Gender Studies, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of AI Now (NYU). Irani is a cofounder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon. Her work has appeared at ACM SIGCHI, New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other venues. She sits on the editorial committee of Public Culture and on the editorial advisory boards of New Technology, Work, and Employment and Design and Culture. She holds a PhD in informatics from the University of California, Irvine.
Just Infrastructures was launched by researchers in the iSchool, Department of Computer Science, and College of Media to interrogate the complex interactions between people, algorithms, and AI-driven systems.
Find more information and register for the event on the Just Infrastructures web page.
This event is sponsored by Grainger College of Engineering Strategic Research Initiative, School of Information Sciences, Computer Science Department, and Community Data Clinic