Critical AI, Predatory Data & Community Resistance with Anita Say Chan

Schedule

Thu Nov 13 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Clark University MACD building | Worcester, MA

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Dr. Chan will discuss her most recent book, "Predatory Data," and her experience working with the Illinois Data Clinic.
About this Event

Clark University’s Community Data and AI Lab cordially invites you to a talk with Dr. Anita Say Chan, Professor in the School of Information Sciences and the College of Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr Chan’s research and teaching interests include globalization and digital cultures, innovation networks and the “periphery”, science and technology studies in Latin America, and hybrid pedagogies in building digital literacies. She received her PhD from the MIT Doctoral Programs in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society. She is the author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (2025).

Sponsored by Clark University's
Higgins Institute
Department of Language, Literature, and Culture
Department of English
Becker School of Design & Technology

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Clark University MACD building, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, United States

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