Organizers
Julian Posada is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University and a member of the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science. His research integrates theories and methods from information science, sociology, and human-computer interaction to examine how technology is developed and used within various historical, cultural, and social contexts.
Camilla Salim Wagner is a research assistant at TU Berlin and the Weizenbaum Institute. As part of the DataWorkers’ Inquiry team, she conducts community-based action research to study the data work industry and support workers’ organization efforts.
Tianling Yang is a doctoral researcher at TU Berlin and at the Weizenbaum Institute. Her research focuses on social and institutional contexts of the production of machine learning datasets, as well as actors and stakeholders in the global AI supply chains.
Jana Heim is a doctoral researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute and WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Her research focuses on the relationships between digital technologies, knowledge practices, and organisational logics, particularly in contexts of critical infrastructure.
Srravya Chandhiramowuli examines the role of human values in data annotation and AI development. Her current research examines the work of data annotation for AI, to envision and inform just, equitable futures of AI. She is a PhD candidate in the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
Alex Taylor has been contributing to Science & Technology Studies and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for over twenty years. His interests are in how digital technologies are co-constitutive of forms of knowing and doing, and, as a consequence, provide a basis for fundamental transformations in society. He is a Reader at Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the leader of DigiLabour initiative, the PI for Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP – an action research with delivery and tech workers in Brazil and Argentina), an editor for the journal Platforms and Society, and a member of Fairwork and Tierra Común.
Milagros Miceli is head of the research group "Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics" at the Weizenbaum Institute and Research Lead at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). She leads the Data Workers’ Inquiry, a community-based research project and platform for data workers across the globe.
Attendees (alphabetical order)
Abdou, Mostafa
Barlas, Pinar
Erslev, Malthe Stavning
Grudin, Jonathan
Inie, Nanna
Klumbytė, Goda
Martin, Anya
Pereira, Gabriel
Pold, Søren
Ravishankar, Vinit
Santos-Souza, Lucas
Sørensen, Søren Bøgh
Zhang, Justine