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Data Feminism-- A Crowdcast Luncheon with Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

Event date: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics--one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.

Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.

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This event is co-sponsored by The Lola a Womxn's Club and Community. The Lola's mission is to bring together womxn as allies and accomplices to tell our stories, raise our voices and dismantle a system that doesn't serve us. Click here to learn more. ​​​​​​​

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Event address: 
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Data Feminism (Strong Ideas) By Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein Cover Image
$32.95
ISBN: 9780262044004
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: The MIT Press - March 17th, 2020

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.

Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil.


Event Summary: 
In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics--one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.