Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

This workshop navigates questions of feminist ethics, machine learning, and data practices. Prof. D’Ignazio will use her own current project on feminicide, counterdata collection, and social activism in Latin America to discuss projects involving human subjects, missing data, and feminist activism with faculty members. Faculty members interested in data, computation, and feminist approaches with different levels of expertise are welcome. This workshop will allow scholars familiar with feminist approaches but not with data science to engage with scholars familiar with data science but not feminist theory and activism. A draft of Prof. D’Ignazio’s scholarship-in-progress will be distributed prior to the workshop and faculty should attend with questions in mind.

Catherine D’Ignazio (@kanarinka) is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her forthcoming book Data Feminism from MIT Press, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org, and the Knight Foundation and have been exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity, particularly in relation to space and place. For more information, visit http://www.kanarinka.com.

This is a Zoom meeting. Please RSVP to Sophia Acord (skacord@ufl.edu) to participate. Attendance is limited to 12 UF faculty.

This event is part of the 2020-21 speaker series “Rethinking the Public Sphere Part II: Data and Democracy”