Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Associate Professor of Media and Communications, LSE; co-founder of Our Data Bodies
Seeta Peña Gangadharan is an associate professor at the London School of Economics whose research examines how data-driven technologies affect marginalized communities. She co-founded Our Data Bodies, a participatory research project with communities in Charlotte, Detroit and Los Angeles.
Key arguments & positions
- Studies how data-driven systems affect marginalized communities, arguing that the people most exposed to automated decisions should shape how those systems are governed.
- Argues that privacy and data-justice harms fall hardest on poor and marginalized people who have the least ability to opt out.
Accomplishments
- Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics.
- Co-founder of Our Data Bodies, a participatory research project with communities in Charlotte, Detroit and Los Angeles.
- Co-founder of the Justice, Equity and Technology Project at LSE.
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