{"id":42389,"date":"2021-05-24T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/?p=42389"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:17:24","slug":"episode-2-data-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/episode-2-data-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 2: Data &#038; Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nonindented\">Scholars Shaka McGlotten and Chris Ramsaroop join our host, Natalie Kerby, to discuss data in the context of labor. The episode addresses the historical ways that data has been used to organize labor, the labor of making ourselves visible to data-centric systems, and the different ways that people, and more specifically workers, are resisting datafication.<\/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-labor-with-shaka-mcglotten-chris-ramsaroop\/id1523686748?i=1000522844206\" 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. Our RSS feed is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public-books-101.castos.com\/feed\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindented\"><em>View a transcript of the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/S3EP2_DataandLabor_2021_05_24_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"nonindented\">Our guests<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shaka McGlotten<\/strong> is a professor of anthropology and media studies at Purchase College, SUNY.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Ramsaroop<\/strong> is an organizer with Justice for Migrant Workers and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.<\/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>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>\u00c9douard Glissant, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5882\/9780472066292\"><em>Poetics of Relation<\/em><\/a>, translated from the French by Betsy Wing (University of Michigan Press, 1997)<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Paglen, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you\/\">Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)<\/a>,\u201d <em>New Inquiry<\/em>, December 8, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has data been used to organize labor, and how do we make ourselves visible to data-centric systems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":42390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1997],"tags":[310,2002,13,132,293,168,174,1712,1894,84,960,69],"pbpartner":[1998],"section":[],"pbseries":[],"class_list":["post-42389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-three","tag-activism","tag-becoming-data","tag-capitalism","tag-colonialism","tag-data","tag-labor","tag-migration","tag-podcast","tag-public-books-101","tag-race","tag-sex-work","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 2: Data &amp; 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