Panel: Data as Toxic Waste


Friday, May 4, 2018 - 15:00 to 17:00

The often invoked analogy of data as the new oil seems to be true in more than one sense. As the recent revelations about Facebook’s data breaches exemplify, data is not only the new raw resource of the digital economy but leaking and spilling into the environment. The governments and corporations that collect them now are called upon to also contain them. In particular, the comprehensive and indiscriminate collection and processing of massive amounts of personal information and identity data has become toxic, which brings about wide-reaching yet hardly acknowledged risks symptomatic of the age of digitalization and big data.

In this panel, leading scholars in the social studies of datafication and its political economy will debate some of the risks concerning data as toxic waste and their implications for business and society. Following their panel contributions, there will be opportunity for questions and debate.

Participants

  •     Prof. Hamid Ekbia (Indiana University Bloomington, Center for Research on Mediated Interaction)
  •     Prof. Jannis Kallinikos (London School of Economics, Department of Management)
  •     Prof. Tom Kirchmaier (Copenhagen Business School, Center for Corporate Governance)
  •     Prof. Ravi Vatrapu (Copenhagen Business School, Department of Digitalization)


Organizers

  •     Ass. Prof. Attila Marton (Copenhagen Business School, Department of Digitalization)
  •     Prof. Ioanna Constantiou (Copenhagen Business School, Department of Digitalization)

 

Location: Kilen Ks48

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