LECTURE OF THE DESIGN DIALOGUES SPEAKERS SERIES

Geoffrey C. Bowker (Professor, School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC-Irvine)

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016—4-5:30 p.m., NCSA Auditorium
1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana, IL (on the University of Illinois campus)

The phenomenon of big data and its various interpretations are changing what it means to be human. This talk explores aspects of this change with a view to teasing out the histories and the ethical design issues which arise from past developments.

*Reception to follow sponsored by the Gender and Women’s Studies Dept.

Geoffrey C. Bowker is a professor at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Director of the Values in Design Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. From 1993-1998, he was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Information Sciences; he served as a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications from 1998-1999. Bowker currently co-directs the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, along with researchers from across academia and the IT industry. He has published widely on the topics of information infrastructure and classification systems in distributed scientific collaborations, and the use of Web and digital resources across disciplines.

For more details, visit http://go.illinois.edu/design_dialogues.