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SUMMARY:The cost of data: making sense in digital society - Gina Neff (Min
 deroo Centre for Technology and Democracy)
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:From steps\, to clicks\, to heartbeats\, we have long been qua
 ntified. New and emerging kinds of data now promise to help people live be
 tter lives\, communities to connect more authentically\, and governments s
 olve big social problems.\n\nThe challenge is that these data—especially
  social media and other data of our traces of online actions—are rarely 
 transparent to us. There are enormous power imbalances reflected in who ca
 n collect and analyse such data\, and rarely are they accountable to socie
 ty.\n\nIn this inaugural annual lecture for the 20th anniversary of Cambri
 dge’s Centre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences and Humanities\,
  Professor Gina Neff raises alarms about the costs of such data to societi
 es\, democracies\, and the environment. Drawing on years of sociological r
 esearch on how people make sense of data at work and in their lives\, she 
 shows how and when data come to matter entail social\, cultural and politi
 cal decisions. Who counts—and what counts—in our digital society are p
 olitically charged and yet urgent questions for our collective future.\n\n
 Supported by the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy
LOCATION:McGrath Centre\, St Catharine’s College &amp\; online
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