44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

18/02/2021 1h 31min
44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

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Episode Synopsis

We discuss the limitations of existing approaches – and democratic alternatives – to data governance in informational capitalism with Salomé Viljoen (https://twitter.com/salome_viljoen_), a legal scholar in the NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative, who is doing some of the most exciting and cutting-edge work in this area. Salomé explains how we need to make data collection work for socially beneficial uses and why surveillance of powerful people / important institutions is good, actually.

Read her excellent work:
• Democratic Data: A Relational Theory For Data Governance: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727562
• Data as Property? https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/data-as-property
• Find more of Salomé’s work here: https://www.salomeviljoen.com

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).