{"id":42384,"date":"2021-05-17T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=42384"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:17:25","slug":"episode-1-data-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/episode-1-data-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 1: Data &#038; Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nonindented\">In the first episode of our new season, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/category\/podcast\/season-three\/\">Becoming Data<\/a>,\u201d artist Mimi Onuoha and data journalist Lam Thuy Vo join our host, Natalie Kerby, to consider what is lost when human life becomes translated into data. How do people show up in data, and what are some of the inequalities that can result from data collection?<\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/data-and-humanity-with-mimi-onuoha-lam-thuy-vo\/id1523686748?i=1000521940186\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>Subscribe to\u00a0<\/em>Public Books 101\u00a0<em>on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/public-books-101\/id1523686748\">Apple<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/52pDLXxtxQOEJTaFPBSi3n?si=sxF5lvz8RUebjh2XzWZMcA\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/shoe-leather\/public-books-101\">Stitcher<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/podcast\/fffa8970-a8e4-0138-e68d-0acc26574db2\">Pocket Casts<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><em>to listen and to be notified when new episodes are released.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>View a transcript of the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/S3E1P_DataandHumanity_2021_05_17_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Our RSS feed is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public-books-101.castos.com\/feed\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"nonindented\">Our guests<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mimi Onuoha<\/strong> is a media artist who makes work about what it means for the world to take the form of data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lam Thuy Vo<\/strong> is a reporter who digs into data to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is an incoming Data-Journalist-in-Residence at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natalie Kerby<\/strong>, this season\u2019s host, is a media producer, editor, and researcher who works at the intersection of human rights, digital media, and technology. Currently, she is the digital content associate at Data &amp; Society and a volunteer at Interference Archive, an archive of social movements where she coproduces the podcast series <em>Audio Interference<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"nonindented\">Further reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia Angwin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/themarkup\/issues\/paying-the-privacy-tax-298830?\">Paying the Privacy Tax<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Markup<\/em> (2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Simone Browne, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780822359388\">Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Duke University Press, 2015)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diana Nucera, Berhan Taye, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Micah Sifry, and Matt Stempeck, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/civictech.guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pathways-Through-the-Portal.pdf\">Pathways through the Portal<\/a>,\u201d Civic Hall (2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, and Kate Crawford, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423\">Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice<\/a>,\u201d 94 <em>NYU Law Review Online<\/em> 192 (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Smiley, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/11\/stealing-amazon-packages-age-nextdoor\/598156\/\">The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can\u2019t Believe It Came to This<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, November 1, 2019<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780822358343\"><em>Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis<\/em><\/a>, edited by Katherine McKittrick (Duke University Press, 2015)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do\u00a0people show up in data, and what are some of the inequalities that can result from data collection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":42386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1997],"tags":[822,2002,293,1712,1894,84,69],"pbpartner":[1998],"section":[],"pbseries":[],"class_list":["post-42384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-three","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-becoming-data","tag-data","tag-podcast","tag-public-books-101","tag-race","tag-technology","pbpartner-data-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Episode 1: Data &amp; 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