Capstone Conversations: 2022-23 Race & Technology Fellows

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Capstone Conversations: 2022-23 Race & Technology Fellows

Lindsey Cameron
Christina Harrington
Sareeta Amrute

“Creating your own terms for how you want to be in the world always has to be done in solidarity with others. That’s why I get so much from these conversations and the fellowship.” – Sareeta Amrute

Summary

Data & Society launched these fellowships three years ago to recognize how important questions of race, and analogous concepts like caste, are to studying, developing, and using emerging technologies. This year’s fellows convened interdisciplinary groups to talk through shared analysis and points of difference in their respective fields, devising nuanced ways to engage with the intersections of tech and race.

In these conversations with Fellowship Director Sareeta Amrute, 2022-2023 Race and Technology Fellows Christina Harrington and Lindsey Cameron discuss what drew them to this work, the convenings and connections the program has made possible, and where each of them will take these ideas next.

Read more about this year’s fellows and our fellowships over the years.

Note: As Data & Society continues to develop and change, so do our programs. We’re hitting pause on our Fellows program for the 2023 – 24 cohort year as we step back and reflect on how fellowships in general — and our fellowship program in particular — connect to our strategy and our research areas and how it might best serve our network going forward. We are so proud of our nine cohorts of fellows for all they’ve done at Data & Society and beyond as they anchor a field of researchers and practitioners that’s growing in size and influence. Stay tuned for more.

References

Lindsey Cameron

[Article] Cameron, L. Chan, C. and Anteby, M. “Heroes from Above But Not (Always) From Within: Gig Workers Responses to the Public Moralization of their Work.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 2022.

[Article] Cameron, L., Thomason, B., and Conzon, V. “Risky Business: Gig Workers and the Navigation of Ideal Worker Expectations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Applied Psychology. 2021.

[Article] Cameron, L. “‘Making Out’ While Driving: The Relational and Efficiency Game in the Gig Economy.” Organization Science. 2022.

[Article] Cameron, L.* and Rahman, H.* “Expanding the Locus of Resistance: The Constitution of Control and Resistance in the Gig Economy.” Organization Science. 2022.

[Article] Cameron, L. and Winn, B. “Worker Voice and Choice: The Democratization and Uberification of Work.” (Linking Theory + Practice Series.) People + Strategy Journal, Society for Human Resource Management. Fall 2021.

[Podcast] Cameron, L. “The Gig Economy and the Pandemic,” Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman. February 11, 2021.

Christina Harrington

[White Paper] Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. US Office of Science and Technology Policy. 2022.

[Toolkit] Building Utopia Deck. Christina Harrington, Jennifer Roberts, Kirsten Bray, N’Deye Diakhate.

[Article] Harrington, C., Erete, S. Piper, A. “Deconstructing Community-Based Collaborative Design: Towards More Equitable Participatory Design Engagements.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW Article No.: 216, pp 1–25. November 7, 2019.

[Book/Exhibit] In the Black Fantastic. Hayward Gallery, London, UK. June-September 2022.

[TV] Lovecraft Country. 2020.

Sareeta Amrute

[Book] Amrute, Sareeta. Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin. Duke University Press, 2016.

[Primer] Amrute, Sareeta and Singh, Ranjit and Guzmán, Rigoberto Lara, A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World: An Empirical Site and a Standpoint. September 14, 2022.