Automated decision-making systems or algorithms are playing an increasingly significant role in public administration and civil rights space. In his book “Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made,” David Robinson investigates and contextualizes the story of the Kidney Allocation System, which as a result of cross-disciplinary collaboration among surgeons, clinicians, data scientists, public officials, advocates, and patients, over the course of 10 years, evolved into a relatively inclusive and accountable decision-making technology. Through this story, the author discusses the most fundamental issues related to the design and management of public-interest algorithms.
Category: Podcast
Podcast | Being Present: book discussion with the author
In this episode, I discuss the book titled “Being present: commanding attention at work and at home by managing your social presence,” with the author Dr. Jeanine Turner, a communications scholar at Georgetown University. In a world permeated with new media and communication technologies, managing our social presence and controlling where and how we invest our attention is not an easy task. In this discussion, Dr. Turner offers an overview of her framework with four different approaches on how to manage your social presence in the modern communication space.
This episode was originally published on Gnovis Journal of the Georgetown University, also available on Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts.
Podcast | Data & Truth with danah boyd
The topic of this episode is data and truth. There is a popular saying that we live in a data driven world? But where is data driving us? According to some estimates the amount of data generated over the next 3 years will be more than the amount of data created over the past 30 years. We have immersed ourselves in zettabytes of data to minimize uncertainty, make sense of the world around us and validate every step we take. But how reliable is all this data and can it really help us find the truth? In this episode we look for the answers to this and other questions with prominent scholar Prof danah boyd, whose research examines the intersection between technology and society. She’s a partner researcher at Microsoft, the founder of the well-known non-profit research institute Data & Society, as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, where she taught a graduate course on Data and Politics of Evidence.