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REEEC New Directions Lecture: Diana Kurkovsky West (Auburn University), "From 'Big Data' Socialism to Digital Utopianism: Lessons from the Soviet Past for the Post-Covid-19 Future"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Date
Oct 15, 2020   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Diana Kurkovsky West (Auburn University)
Registration
Registration
Contact
Stephanie Porter
E-Mail
chung88@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Can a society be governed by data? In the age of big data, we seem certain that it can and should be. Despite many decades of research exposing its blind spots and biases, data collection is more insidious than ever, while the Covid-19 pandemic has propelled our already computerized lives into a the digital stratosphere. Dr. West's lecture, based on her book project CyberSovietica: A History of Soviet Big Data Socialism and Digital Utopianism, takes up the question of big data from a historical vantage point.

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