44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salome Viljoen)

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 12:48 a.m.

We discuss the limitations of existing approaches \u2013 and democratic alternatives \u2013 to data governance in informational capitalism with Salom\xe9 Viljoen (https://twitter.com/salome_viljoen_), a legal scholar in the NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative, who is doing some of the most exciting and cutting-edge work in this area. Salom\xe9 explains how we need to make data collection work for socially beneficial uses and why surveillance of powerful people / important institutions is good, actually.\n\nRead her excellent work:\n\u2022 Democratic Data: A Relational Theory For Data Governance: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727562 \n\u2022 Data as Property? https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/data-as-property \n\u2022 Find more of Salom\xe9\u2019s work here: https://www.salomeviljoen.com\n\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \n\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).