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.
Seeta Peña Gangadharan
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Data & SocietyThis primer discusses data-driven education and the increasing use of data in educational reform, while raising both concerns and challenges within this growing field. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the persistent obstacles that communities of color face within our consumer finance system, and investigates the role of rapidly changing technologies therein. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer traces the history of discrimination in home ownership and housing within the US to digital redlining and data mining practices today. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores historical employment discrimination, and investigates the growing use of public data, algorithms, surveillance, and outcome-oriented scoring systems within work environments. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer provides a basic overview to some of the core concepts underpinning the “big data” phenomenon and the practice of data mining. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer outlines the central role that data plays in both medicine and health insurance, and how it enables advances and creates new challenges. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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New York TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues that privacy-as-default features "help restore public trust in technology as a tool to improve our lives and collectively self-govern." "When technologies c... Read on New York TimesSeptember 2014 -
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New York TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues that the "rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterpris... Read on New York TimesAugust 2014