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SUMMARY:[EVENT CANCELED] Author Event | danah boyd: Data Are Made\, Not Found
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to share an event featuring an esteemed member of the ESC community\, and member of our advisory board\, danah boyd.   The information below is copied from the Ann Arbor District Library Event Page.  Author Event | danah boyd: Data Are Made\, Not FoundWhenThursday November 12\, 2026: 6:30pm to 7:30pm WhereAnn Arbor District Library | Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room DescriptionIn the United States\, the census is democracy’s data. These data make politics—and politics make these data. Data Are Made\, Not Found tells the story of what it took for the US Census Bureau to make its canonical data in 2020\, amidst a pandemic\, natural disasters\, and political pressure. The making of these data is more than meets the eye. After all\, what do government officials do when people refuse to participate or when workers submit fabricated data? And how does the government balance the competing goals of publishing as much data as possible without inadvertently breaching the confidentiality of the public? To complicate matters\, government officials must navigate “Jenga politics” as both well-intended and malevolent actors try to achieve their goals by weakening the administrative state and putting pressure on a wobbly structure. Civil servants do their best to keep the tower from collapsing\, but the precarity is real. In this talk\, danah boyd will discuss what it takes to make democracy’s data—and what those who care about data and democracy should understand about the complexities of making high-stakes data. danah boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society\, with an eye towards how structural inequities shape and are shaped by sociotechnical systems. She is the author of Data are Made\, Not Found: A Story of Politics\, Power\, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census and It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. This event includes a signing with books for sale. This event is in partnership with the University of Michigan School of Information\, and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research\, and the Computer Science and Engineering Division at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/author-event-danah-boyd-data-are-made-not-found/
LOCATION:Ann Arbor District Library\, Downtown Library\, 4th Floor Program Room\, 343 S 5th Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
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