Episode 7: Voices of the Steering Committee for the Year of Data and Society

A digital humanities librarian, project manager and researcher, philosopher, and law professor walk into a podcast... Hear what happens in today’s episode, which features four members of the Year of Data and Society Steering Committee: Tyrica Terry-Kapral, Liz Monk, Lisa Parker, and Mike Madison. The interviewer is Briana Wipf. This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.  

For more about Terry-Kapral's work, visit https://cadatpitt.github.io/. For more about Lisa Parker’s work, visit https://bioethics.pitt.edu/people/lisa-s-parker-phd. For more about Liz Monk’s work, visit https://ucsur.pitt.edu/index.php. For more about Mike Madison, visit https://www.law.pitt.edu/people/michael-j-madison. Give his podcast a listen at https://omny.fm/shows/future-law-podcast-1.  

Interviews for this episode were recorded between March 22, and April 4, 2022. 

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.