Angles on Bending Lines: Brian Jefferson on geographic information systems and the war on crime and drugs

9 June 2021
online, Boston, USA

Organisation: The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

The exhibition Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception examines how visual representations of the world can shape what people believe. But sometimes biases and distortions are built into the data that is used to produce a map. Far from offering a perfectly objective, all-encompassing view of the world, data sets of all kinds are deeply shaped by human choices.
In this conversation series, we talk with experts about why we should be careful about geographic information in modern data. How is data collected, and how does it get fixed into categories and numbers? Who gets to own data sets, and who gets to make decisions using them? What sorts of public responsibilities should shape the social lives of data?
A lecture by Brian Jefferson, associate professor of geography at the University of Illinois whose work explores capitalism, digital technology, and the state in urban contexts.

Time schedule: 12.00 EDT

Entry fee: Free

URL: https://www.leventhalmap.org/event/how-data-can-warp-our-wor[...]