Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will give a lecture entitled The Partial Witness: Data, Bodies and the Trouble with Truth on March 10, 2015 at Carleton University. The lecture will focus on the emergence of personal devices claiming to generate greater insight about our health and well-being, while also producing a range of additional consequences that feed back into one-sided relations of power with device makers, employers, insurers and the legal system. The lecture will raise critical questions about the relationship between data, power and human bodies.
When: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 6 p.m.
Where: River Building, Second Floor, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
Reception to follow
About Kate Crawford
Crawford is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at New York University’s Information Law Institute and an associate professor at the University of New South Wales. Her research investigates the ethical failures of big data and the power dimensions of data analytics. Crawford is writing a new book about data and power with Yale University Press and has written for The Atlantic, the New York Times and the New Inquiry.
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