About this episode

Authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert discuss the hidden infrastructures of data collection and its impact on culture and identity.

In The Secret Life of Data , authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore how the information we generate every day—email addresses, phone numbers, browsing habits, even biometric data—circulates through vast digital systems that shape our lives in ways we rarely see. Their book examines the hidden infrastructures of data collection, surveillance, and algorithmic decision-making, revealing how these systems influence culture, power, and identity in a networked world. Internet governance scholar Laura DeNardis speaks with Sinnreich and Gilbert. Grab your copy of The Secret Life of Data : https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/ This conversation was recorded on 4/18/2024. Watch the full video recording at: https://archive.org/details/the-secret-life-of-data Check out all of the Future Knowledge episodes at https://archive.org/details/future-knowledge

People in this episode

Guests: Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert

Topics covered

• data collection
• surveillance
• algorithmic decision-making
• digital systems
• culture
• identity

Keywords

• data
• surveillance
• algorithm
• digital systems
• identity
• culture
• information

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Internet Archive, Authors Alliance, MIT Press

Books & works: The Secret Life of Data

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