Note from the editor
Points is an experimental collection of pieces from the broader Data & Society community: occasional extracts and essays — provocations — to manifest, complicate, and re-frame the relations between data, technology, and society. For more of our work and research, visit datasociety.net/research. Interested in writing for Points? Email medium (at) datasociety.net with your pitch. While we can’t guarantee publication, we’re always open to hearing new perspectives on themes related to our research.
Editors
Writers
Ingrid Burrington
Precarious author (Networks of New York), educator, and artist (currently, Pioneer Works).
Katie J Wells
I am a geographer at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. I write about cities, tech, and work: katiejwells.net
Frederike Kaltheuner
Holding tech to account. Mozilla Tech Policy Fellow, writer, researcher and activist
caroline sinders
Machine Learning Designer and Researcher | Artist | Instigator| online harassment researcher, fellow digital Harvard Kennedy School
wishcrys
anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, phd. studying influencer cultures, online visibility, social media pop culture. books & writing at wishcrys.com.
amanda lenhart
Program Director, Health+Data @datasociety focusing on healthy tech, with a side of youth & families.
Milovan Savic
Research Fellow @Swinburne. Interests: digital cultures, youth, social media, privacy, digital citizenship, automated systems, AI. Melbourne/Naarm-based.
Sophie Bishop
Sophie Bishop is a Lecturer at King’s College London in Digital Marketing and Communications. Her research looks at the feminist political economy of creative c
Ranjit Singh
a researcher interested in the intersection of data infrastructures, global development, and public policy.
Jorge A. Cabrera
Union and community organizer, educator and researcher. Long live tacos and tamales.
Sonja Solomun
Research Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy @mediatechdem | PhD Candidate, McGill | Tweets @SonjaSolomun
Jordan Kraemer
Media anthropologist & ethnographer of emerging tech researching digital platforms & urban inequality. Currently: director of policy & research at ADL CTS.
Yang Hong
in(ter)dependent as shoshin insights. apprentice to lifelong practices of tea and liberation. iroh energy. offline.
Soledad Magnone
Uruguayan sociologist focused on intersections between education, digital tech and human rights w/special focus on children. Director of JAAKLAC initiative.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Raj) is an Assistant Professor at SFS in the Science, Technology and International Affairs program here at Georgetown University.
Michele Gilman
Venable Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, University of Baltimore School of Law and Affiliate, Data & Society.
Jenna Imad Harb
PhD Scholar at The Australian National University, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech)
Georgia van Toorn
post-doctoral research fellow | ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making & Society | disability, technology, neoliberal state formations
Kimberley D. McKinson
Kimberley D. McKinson is a cultural anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research in Jamaica. She is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.
Aitorjimenezg
Aitor Jimenez is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
Jutta Haider
Currently a researcher of networked silences & environmenta| information | Swedish School of Library & Information Science | Mistra Environmental Communication
Laura Forlano
Professor, College of Arts, Media, and Design, Northeastern University. Editor of Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press, 2019) and digitalSTS (Princeton, 2019).
Agrigorovich
Alisa Grigorovich is an assistant professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Ben Winters
Senior Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center | Instructor at UDC Law School | newsletter at algoharm.org
Bogdana Rakova
Senior Trustworthy AI Fellow at Mozilla Foundation, working on improving AI contestability, transparency, accountability, and human agency
Charis Papaevangelou
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. Researching the political economy of platform governance.
Ania Calderon
Managing Director @datasociety | alum @opendatacharter @BKCHarvard Assembly @DatosGobMX @ColumbiaSIPA @PaseUsted | @AiBlindspot
