DLF Forum attendees come together to open this year's Forum with some opening thoughts and thank-yous from CLIR staff and an opening keynote conversation with Meredith Broussard and David Nemer, moderated by Sara Mannheimer. This session will be live-streamed and a partial recording will be made available after the events.
Keynote: Technology in Society: In Conversation with Meredith Broussard and David Nemer
In this year’s keynote, DLF Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group co-convener Sara Mannheimer will host a conversation with data journalist Meredith Broussard and anthropologist and media scholar David Nemer. The conversation will focus on how technology affects society—who creates technology, who it is designed for, who uses it, how technology benefits society, how technology can perpetuate bias and inequality, and how GLAM practitioners can support responsible technology use in our daily work.
About Meredith:Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of the award-winning book
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She is an affiliate faculty member at the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, a 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, and her work has been supported by the Institute of Museum & Library Services as well as the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School. A former features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. Her features and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Vox, and other outlets. Follow her on Twitter
@merbroussard or contact her via
meredithbroussard.com.
About David:David Nemer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies and in the Latin American Studies program at the University of Virginia. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and Princeton University’s Brazil Lab. Nemer is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022) and Favela Digital: The other side of technology (Editora GSA, 2013). He holds a MA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University. Nemer has written for The Guardian, El País, The Huffington Post (HuffPost), Salon, and The Intercept.
About Sara:Dr. Sara Mannheimer is an Associate Professor and Data Librarian at Montana State University, where she helps shape practices and theories for data curation, publication, and preservation. She supports data education and discovery initiatives, including as project lead for the MSU Dataset Search. Her research examines the social, ethical, and technical issues of a data-driven world. She is currently working on a book that explores how data curation can enable responsible qualitative data reuse and big social research.
