Episode 1: Introduction with the Information Ecosystems Leadership Team

The interviewees in this episode are Alison Langmead, Lara Putnam, and Annette Vee, the Leadership Team of the Information Ecosystems Sawyer Seminar. The interviewer is Erin O'Rourke. The website for the seminar can be found at https://infoecosystems.pitt.edu, where listeners can find a calendar of public events from September 2019 to May 2020. Our blog scan be found at https://medium.com/information-ecosystems, and our Twitter account is @Info_Ecosystems.

The podcast team includes Sarah Reiff Conell, Shack Hackney, Jane Rohrer, Erin O'Rourke, and Briana Wipf, along with support from the organizers and leadership team of this Mellon Sawyer Seminar.

This episode was recorded in the WPTS studio at the University of Pittsburgh, with special assistance by Dan Kubis and Gregory Weston.

This podcast is produced from the community surrounding a 2019-2020 Sawyer Seminar funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of Pittsburgh. Our group seeks to advance critical understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences.