You and congregate in the jfk parking. Please also take those moment now to. [silence] your cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the hashtag, jfk junior farm life. Editor with our student run instagram. At jfk junior forum behind the scenes and lights. Please take your seats now join me in welcoming our guests, and director of the center on media and politics and Public Policy. Nancy gibbs. [applause] getting for those of you havent had a chance yet the semester to make it across the charles hotel, the center over on the industry is focused on the intersection of many of politics and Public Policy which means we are basically looking at the quality of information in a free society. So a lot of that means working to get the best research into the hands of journalists to help newsrooms with hard questions that they are facing in all that is about promoting good highquality information. You will understand why at this moment in our history, a lot of hard work is also focused on information contaminants. That information. And on the wave in which information streams are polluted and poisoned. And leading that work for us, is doctor Joseph Donovan who is going to be moderating tonight. I say of john as the model of the scholar who bridges theory and practice with real time highly relevant research. She is building a casebook of a hundred case studies and medium manipulation that will not only be invaluable to researchers it will be actionable intelligence for newsrooms and Civil Society leaders that are at a time when these questions in these challenges cannot be more urgent. So the work that john and her team are doing the work that we are doing here of the work that we are talking about and are convening center classes and in our brown bag lunches, his work that i hope you will all engage with us on because i do believe it is critically important at this moment in our country news history. I am so pleased that our inaugural if it is on the topic that is the sergeant and a group of people to bring so much to these questions. Please welcome Jonah Donovan and her panel. [applause] thank you so much to nancy and warren at the center, its been a Pretty Amazing journey and getting my phd and doing some work at data and society the nonprofit and that indigo pair where i grew up about 10 miles from here. It is a pretty big deal. My spouse has alerted my mother that there is a lifestream so [laughter] and you should tell your friends as well. There is a lifestream tonight so that i can fulfill my dream of getting out of route one. And be in cambridge. Before we get started, we are going to do something that is not traditional within cambridge and hes but i say it is a really important thing that we start to do here which is the territorial acknowledgment. As unlikely today, we have erica violently was a writer and community geyser and graduate students who created studies and did indigenous philosophies embodied geographies and de colonial system ologies of desire and then in the future. Erica has worked with the more the canadian news Climate Coalition in the data Suzuki Foundation among others in the pursuit of indigenous feminist freedoms. She is part of the tribe from saskatoon and a member of the on child free nations currently enrolled in a master news programs in special justice education at ois eat at the university of toronto. Zavala if you come up here and eric and violet, come up here and talk to us about recognition in the land acknowledgment. Thank you joan. Carmack. My name is Erica Violet Lee emma visitor from up north. The monitor to deliver this land acknowledgment as a of this Brilliant Panel tonight. Thank you to Harvard University native american program. So often on acknowledgments can be are absent altogether. So i tried my best to make this one a little different. We knowledge that the intertwined legacies of the devastation transit logic slavery in salt lake colonialism, which contribute to the can ration and wealth of this university in the station. My knowledge that the reparations owed to black and indigenous communities and the impossibilities of return for generations past. And ancestors in the room tonight as we fight together for better futures. We knowledge that we all live in an era of necessary resistance to preserve this planet and all of the beautiful creation that is no doubt worthy of the struggle. My knowledge of the land hearts said is the traditional territory of the massachusetts people and is the place which is long served as a side meeting and exchange among nations. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much erica. She comes here to talk to a little bit about the workshop we held in a minute but first i should introduce our panel tonight. At the far end here we have latoya peterson, who that television veterans specializing in emerging technologies shes an art award wheeling writer from major outlets like the New York Times and pr is the bill and could talk to. As well as a three time judge the world video game hunting. She didnt want to Forbes Magazine 30 and a 30 rising starts media. Racialist. Com which talks are used to publish about the intersection of race in pop culture. Our new endeavor, blowup games, check it out. As a creative r b studio running the future of interactive entertainment. In the center here, we have kelly at mohamed he was a professor of history race and Public Policy and hs had is that susan young right for a professor at the red clift for if it studies and is currently leading a project at sourcing on institutional antiracism and accountability nicknamed the ira project. Please check out what they are doing. And he is the former director of the Schomburg Center for black culture. So thank you for coming. Is on sabbatical. This is the very special occasion for us to have you here. Rabin achievement benjamin who admittedly is one of my sort of academic idols, i aspire to be like you and i have got a lot of work to do because you are an associate professor in the department of africanamerican studies at Princeton University where she studies the social dimensions of Science Technology medicine race and power. She is the founder of just being a lab and she just released to amazing books race after technology which is so offered and Captivating Technology which is says and dictate collection. This verse that i aspire to but nobody should be expecting to be publishing two books anytime soon. [applause] maybe one is ambitious. So welcome everybody here today and i want to welcome my classes here so thank you for coming. Its really nice of you to show up because im a deal. [laughter] is definitely make sure the you see jen for attendance. Im getting rid Straight Talk about the pilot seat of difference in rhetoric of inclusion. We have a wonderful workshop today at please not include us. We are both leading advocates on human rights and Information Security no one say about for hosting this thoughtful if it here at harvard, we are able to do today is bridget product manager stated scientists and policy makers and activists to say about the public conversations we should be having about the limits of inclusion as an and litigated social good. And of course acknowledging differences can be really discomforting but the recognition of difference can also help us say differently about building intentional communities in one of the sort of pain points is being an university sometimes is a lot of inclusionary rhetoric at the same time that we traffic a lot of exclusionary politics and so even as im convening this conversation here, opened with the provocation and questions to say about what can inclusion mean. So what i am talking about inclusion and exclusion paradigm i am thinking about a few very recent examples. July had a public outcry and he resigned. And later the summer, and faculty and researchers were called out to refined publicly about funding by same several faculty resigned. There were also the midst of a cultural shift related to technology and inclusion as well as accountability. And while each of us sell some dive boat wave about what could inclusion mean, we also are in some ways perplexed because some powerful people are being held accountable. But also that seems pretty rare. As i want open by asking if youd like to respond to this, we do say about we say about politics of exclusion and in inclusion and we do see potential for our shift. Anyone of you can jump in. I just start by staying with respect to the snyder issue that i just want to acknowledge that the individual who really galvanized public attention around that was last feminist abolitionist dorian. So i just want to call forth the idea that people outside of the academy understand mistakes and sometimes better than we do that are situated here. Suffer me with the entire sort of organizing effort indicates is that, people are ready and wheeling to hold a mirror up to these ideals that we give lip service to and see you just cant put on their website. You cant just invoke these ideas in your everyday practices actually run directly counter to enter hypocritical essentially. Suffer me one of the things i started to huawei from that was not only that we have to protest and refuse withhold support from institutions that are being hypocritical, but i say that lasting change really has to make the alternative to that is that motive desirable. With the alternative is to the scotus quo, we have to sort of make it so that it is more attractive and desirable. I love that. About alternatives for because a lot of the focus has been removing people like immediate, were about three or four years out from you doing things are still happening and giving the just had a wave of me to and allegations and Different Things against our instructor and get to gate keeper and who doesnt. And the biggest thing that we notice as well is that you cant remove these from power but the system will continue to credit graduate if there isnt that reckoning that has come with it. This art thats been a lot harder. These individual moves that you can get my people. And all of the perpetrators are minutes of these cases. Individual people who are doing these types of expert is much harder to change the system that was still allowed and accept that kind of her name and offer that person a fellowship. Its a lot hard that we see as morality. I say has been that big a shift in the conversation in terms of okay, what types of institutions some dive boat nation do we want to be and how hard we are what is our ethical core. If we start to define that in a different way and has been done thus we see a structural change. Im just glad to be included in this conversation. [laughter] you are really terrific thinkers. First i want to acknowledge that doctor benjamin, resending her acceptance to be here tonight. This isnt just about what activists do on the outside, it is also about the response ability of those of us on the inside who cant be complicit in accepting certain norms that are on acceptable. So i want to applaud you [applause] i know firsthand that that has helped make a difference here in the outcome. But the other thing i want to see is what epstein incited together lets put them together, and this way is an invitation to the work that has been done in the work they were going to talk about tonight. And that is that they are powerful and to some degree her name, shapes both a politician news career as well as as a donor. Between the Decision Making the degree to which inclusion runs against any kind of formal change. If you want to suggest money, that plays a big part. Very interesting. I wanted to do a general introduction, talk to you about these two statements. Raise after technology is i think they would call an active scholarship to say the just activists see each other out, this was the citations with the direct relationship between research and practice. Seeking each other out, they learn from one another how to related systems of ceramics. The book has this survey where together they want to know, exposed this is. Alexi r. Brock. They tend to technologies being deployed already to classify the population and tend to question if there is even possible for can technology the right. I would ask you to talk about what motivated you to bring together this collection. Some of the takeaways, especially when data is activated perhaps are happening all around us but we dont see them readily. I straddle the fields. Patient was trying to print publications that im so happy of various discipline. To conversations was trying to draw together Captivating Technology. Whats happening in the field of science and technology i want to check out sheila, thinking about putting a conversation critical race studies and trying to bring together those thoughts about is disturbing terms of sharpies every moment in speculatively in the future. The way its organized the take away from that structure or that there were traditional rights of policing. Prisons you can see how technology can be processed. Thats the first section and conversation but then becomes into our brief moment will set you dont think our claims of Technology Like the Digital Service economy for philanthropy be to industry. H m and for over 21 think about how they show the same tools logic birth the tells surveilled workers. Because of these crazy folk the tools logic self surveillance jump ship, they scale prison walls in many ways in architecting so many of our institutions them to the conversations with the contributors what this is the most for putting together this volume is that might didnt eventually just stick with diagnosing this problem of Race Technology but i was pushed by one of the more senior traders to think about, now what . Would happen . , i was feeling titles for the text and i had some really bad ones and they were honest, its something to work. When individual setting in the way your framing the text and title, youre getting a lot of intellectual base to diagnosing the problem that you set out to do in giving almost no space barr tragic condition with an alternative be, what would the approach to Technology Like . Because it looked like . In the exchange with this individual where he said week, in general, scholars to feed a lot of the intellectual space a people who dont want in the world. Rather than aiming in opening up conversation and space barr what we do . Actually feeding the alternati alternative. Pushes me not in terms of the title for to flush out this last third of which is about how groups that have been oppressed have always resisted and we imagine these practices from the top. You will find in the last section, both historically and in terms of contemporary moments ways in which all different types of the world, even divine we think of innovation. That is what i years, especially the students will take place as an energizing space around the alternative that we want. He also written extensively about the history of incarceration and condemnation of black men. The transition from slavery, i can see theres moments where the technology through the wall. Were talking this morning, he said this is an apple watch just a monitor. As we looked around, like, but zero. We want our stuff we in a way, creating the data, surveilling ourselves. One of the concepts you bring up the concept of the racial Data Revolution, fueling statistics into the conversation about the people. Talk more about this Data Revolution is understood is and what to do with the way in which turning to data today. Just a basic definition, i think its important for me to pull away. Its a little more than administrative data that the produces, registration and voter registration, giving drivers license, got. You get arrested. Full records. All that stuff, when you fill out those forms, Social Security step draw your life has been increasingly successful. He used to be on little pampering cards it was a long effort to collect that information and do something with it. So harvesting what we all leave behind, traces of our lives and dimensions of our lives with Computer Technology we are talking about here. That takes us back 125 years when the nation was in turmoil immigration and also the people work from abroad, mostly at the issue of business because of labor. African americans were thinking about at the wake of the civil war. Saint just set about the task of trying to find who was where the buses. Should be the drops of water should be the middle managers etc. If they picked up with the kind of pretty scientists that age started to compile another version of big data. They use what they have at the disposal and what they had was largely census data. I fixated on crime data in a real breakthrough. The reason is because one of the parallel questions was with population shift on the scale that we are occurring in the industrial revolution, the question of how to harness peoples power but also to contain social contagion disease incidence, all these other social cultural concerns about what they bring with them it was simultaneously about making money from the bodies it at the same time, the 19th of in segregated communities. Prefer the irish were published for African Americans living from south to the north. Crime statistics became one of the most durable and important technologies in the way of bringing peoples relative business for citizenship. There relative fitness for being truly included in society, selfdirected progress, suspicious and hopefully they will dangerous. Your individuality dont matter. Some of this led to immigration restrictions akin to the calls closing the border to the. Its really striking the parallel with which the claim the data itself was. The political agenda was a simple articulation of the fact of the choices that individuals made, in some ways the rejecti rejection, the kind of biological argument which in the past hundred people are inferior because of the way they their hairballs, to this is the way they behave is that th