Episode 13: Biden, Brexit, and the Future of Science and Technology Policy ft. Lina Dencik
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It's a New Year, and may soon be a new world! Shobita and Jack discuss the big changes brewing in the US and UK, from the new president to Brexit, and consider what it all means for science and technology policy. And we chat with Lina Dencik, Professor and Director of the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University. - Lina Dencik (2019). "Social Justice in an Age of Datafication." Talk at the Alan Turing Institute. May 28. - Lina Dencik,Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden & Emiliano Treré (2019). "Exploring Data Justice: Conceptions, Applications and Directions." Information, Communication, and Society. 22(7): 873-881. - Javier Sánchez-Monedero and Lina Dencik (2020). "The politics of deceptive borders: ‘biomarkers of deceit’ and the case of iBorderCtrl." Information, Communication, and Society. 1-18. - Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Lina Dencik, and Lilian Edwards (2020). "What does it mean to 'solve' the problem of discrimination in hiring?: social, technical and legal perspectives from the UK on automated hiring systems." FAT* '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. pp. 458–468.
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