Episode 6: Sustaining the Impact of the Year of Data and Society
Information Ecosystems
English - April 15, 2022 09:46 - 40 minutes - 55 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Education computation data digital information power qualitative quantitative Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Sustaining digital projects can be challenging. In today’s episode, four Pitt researchers discuss why, and why it’s so important to try. The interviewees in this episode are Judy L. Cameron, Abhishek Viswanathan, Bridget Keown and Sera Linardi. The interviewer is Briana Wipf. This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.
To learn more about the guests’ funded projects, visit https://www.yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/funding-opportunity/funded-projects. This episode was recorded on Friday, March 25, 2022.
The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful 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. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.