Join us for a conversation with Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade on their recent essay, “The Society of Algorithms,” published in the Annual Review of Sociology (July 2021).  

Jenna Burrell is a Professor of Information Science and Co-Director of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group at UC Berkeley. In August 2021, Professor Burrell joined Data & Society as Director of Research. Her current research focuses on rural communities that host critical Internet infrastructure such as fiber optic cables and data centers. Burrell is the author of Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana (MIT Press, 2012).

Marion Fourcade is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley and Associate Fellow of the Max Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies. Her work incorporates comparative methods to examine the sociology and history of economic and political knowledge and practice. She is the author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton University Press, 2010).

The PERN Salon hosts discussions, presentations, and workshops. The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) is committed to fostering a community of learning. We organize events with our members and guests on works-in-progress and new projects. We welcome presentations in all forms of media, and we seek to foster exchange between academics and practitioners.

This conversation between Burrell, Fourcade, and PERN members will be live-streamed to the public on Thursday, 16 September at 6 PM EST. We invite you to engage with PERN on Twitter @perntns or via email at pern@newschool.edu.

The Vimeo link will be sent to registered participants via email.