In the first episode of our new season, “Becoming Data,” artist Mimi Onuoha and data journalist Lam Thuy Vo join host, Natalie Kerby, to consider what is lost when human life becomes translated into data. How do people show up in data, and what are some of the inequalities that can result from data collection?
Episode 1: Data & Humanity
Mimi Onuoha & Lam Thuy Vo
Becoming Data
Co-produced with
Public Books
About the Guests
Mimi Onuoha (@thistimeitsmimi) is a media artist who makes work about what it means for the world to take the form of data.
Lam Thuy Vo (@lamthuyvo) is a reporter who digs into data to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is an incoming Data Journalist-in-Residence at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism.
Resources
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne, Duke University Press
- Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, and Kate Crawford, SSRN
- The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This by Lauren Smiley, The Atlantic
- Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis edited by Katherine McKittrick, Duke University Press
- Paying the Privacy Tax by Julia Angwin, The Markup
- Pathways Through the Portal by Diana Nucera, Berhan Taye, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Micah Sifry, and Matt Stempeck, Civic Hall