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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Drawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.

Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty

MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Sun-ha Hong on how "big" data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.

Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

MIT's Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public's ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?