Sarah Blacker
@sarah__blacker
Feminist STS, anthro, critical comm & media studies scholar researching racism, health inequities, environmental health and justice. Postdoc at York U. She/Her
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MAY 10: Science, Technology, and Antiracism: A Researchers’ Roundtable. Hosted by Science & Technology Studies at Cornell , featuring Rayvon Fouché, Juno Parreñas JUNO, Anthony Ryan Hatch @anthonyrhatch, and Beth Semel (MIT Anthropology ). #ststwitter events.cornell.edu/event/science_…
Looking forward to tomorrow's launch and discussion of "Towards an Anthropology of Data" @ 11am EDT with Rachel Douglas-Jones @antonia_walford Nick Seaver Tahani Nadim Alexander R. E. Taylor | aretaylor.bsky.social Hannah Knox @[email protected] & Vijayanka Nair, Cori Hayden, and Bill Maurer. Zoom registration below.
Just published this article with Sarah Blacker and Aya Kimura about the use of #CitizenScience as a public relations strategy. Let me know if you want a copy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…
ICYMI, in new paper (When #citizenscience is public relations) Sarah Blacker , Aya Kimura & Abby Kinchy provide sharp insights into emerging phenomenon of #citsci sponsored by polluting industries journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…
Gotta love a scientist who realizes science alone can’t heal a sick society: “The real problem is simply that sick societies have sick institutions. Science is not some cloistered preserve in the clouds, but is buried in the muck with everything else.” TY! nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opi…
For anyone interested in thinking more about algorithmic culture, post-visuality, and emergent racial formations, Scott Wark and I have a fresh publication in Big Data & Society on this very topic! #admsnm21 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
It’s exciting that the absurdity & injustice of race “correction” in medicine is FINALLY getting needed attention & outrage. Many of us have been calling for abolishing it—and the racist myth of biological race it stands on—for years. I’m grateful for your critical voice & work.
New: When collaboration becomes co-optation: Citizen Science as Public Relations Sarah Blacker, Aya H. Kimura & Abby Kinchy wp.me/p4m9em-bsu
In this blog post, Sarah Blacker, Aya Kimura, and I argue that we must not allow public participation in science to be co-opted by the world’s polluters.
How is participatory citizen science transformed—potentially curtailing its capacities to unveil environmental racism, and to serve communities and data justice—when it is co-opted by polluting industry? Abby Kinchy, Aya Kimura and I introduce “public relations citizen science.”
"All my characters tend to be defiant against the impossible. You know you’re going to lose, but still, in an existentialist way, you take a decision to protest." Rawi Hage's photos of the bombed out Beirut Opera, and of everyday life, in last weekend's The Globe and Mail
The field of the #anthropology of #technology now has its own handbook! Congratulations to the editors Maja Hojer Bruun Ayo Wahlberg Rachel Douglas-Jones Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Hoeyer, Dorthe Brogaard @britwinthereik and to all the contributors - Out now: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction. technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/104…