danah boyd in conversation on tech & society
danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. She is also the founder of Data & Society whose research examines the intersection between technology and society.
Tressie McMillan Cottom has written about a range of topics, including the racial hierarchy of beauty standards and the class codes of dressing for work to the predation of for-profit colleges and the stain of racial capitalism on our plural democracy.
Janet Versi is a researcher with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams, and has published in books like Seeing Like a Rover and Shaping Science, funded by the National Science Foundation.
danah featured in a FIRESIDE CHAT alongside Tressie McMillan Cottom and Janet Versi. The chat brushed on ideas in the tech industry, as well as technological determinism, and how to shift opportunities and narratives as a way to look at democracy and technology.