In the first half, Patricia interviews John Cheney-Lippold, author of We Are Data and Assistant Professor of American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. His book explores how our data defines us in ways that shape how governments, advertisers, marketers, political campaigners, prospective employers, real estate brokers, and even law enforcers see us—ways that often clash with how we see ourselves and defy facts. He will discuss what identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it. In the second half, Patri
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