Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan, a Data & Society advisor, is associate professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she also serves as deputy head of department (research) and program director for MSc media and communications (governance). She focuses on inclusion, exclusion, and marginalization, as well as questions around democracy, social justice, and technological governance. Peña Gangadharan co-leads two projects: Our Data Bodies, which examines the impact of data collection and data-driven technologies on members of marginalized communities in the United States; and Justice, Equity, and Technology, which explores the impacts of data-driven technologies and infrastructures on European civil society. In addition to community-based conversations, her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, New York Times, and Al Jazeera.
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New AmericaD&S affiliate Seeta Peña Gangadharan writes about defending digital rights of library patrons. If this sounds complicated and scary, that’s because it is. But confronted with this matrix of vulnerabilities, the library—wit... Read on New AmericaMay 2017 -
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London School of Economics blogD&S Affiliate Seeta Peña Gangadharan discusses how automated systems have transformed the ways in which our data is processed, analyzed, and used by companies that are not held to account for the potential uses of data that... Read on London School of Economics blogApril 2016