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Data Fluencies Program Officer Dannah Dennis interviewed Héctor Beltrán about his recently published book Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands, discussing how computing intersects with issues of identity, race, ethnicity, class, and nation.
Ana Flavia Badue is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the emergence of an agricultural innovation industry in Brazil. By examining the […]
Huan He is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University and holds a PhD in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California. From 2022–2023, He was […]
Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar, PhD candidate, and labor organizer at Simon Fraser University. Beyond her academic work, she works as the coordinator of campaign research […]
Julián Posada is a sociologist and information scientist whose work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, and inequality. He focuses on labor rights and community justice in technology development. […]
Alberto Lusoli is the deputy director and postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Democracies Institute in Vancouver, Canada. His research develops at the intersection of media studies, science and technology studies, […]
Milagros Miceli is a sociologist and computer scientist who investigates how ground-truth data for machine learning (ML) is produced. The focus of her research is labor conditions and power dynamics […]
Different forms of ghost work exists in the current digital landscape across national borders. Just Tech Fellow Adrienne Williams and researcher Milagros Miceli examine how these manifestations of invisible work emerge and play role in data work and AI development, and they suggest paths forward beyond making this labor visible.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is the finance editor at Logic(s) magazine and the cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast on the political economy of technological innovation. His work has appeared […]
Through her experience as an educator and Amazon delivery driver, Adrienne Williams has witnessed first-hand the technological harm inflicted on both students and workers. These experiences catalyzed her to begin […]
Danielle Blunt is a sex worker, community organizer, public health researcher, and the cofounder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and […]