Unsettling Knowledge Inequities

Digital Redlining, Friction-Free Racism and Luxury Surveillance in the Academy

Knowledge Equity Lab Season 3 Episode 5

In the final episode of our third season, we are joined by Chris Gilliard, a professor and scholar  who is highly regarded for his critiques of surveillance technology, privacy, and the invisible but problematic ways that digital technologies intersect with race, social class and marginalized communities.  

In particular, Chris’ work highlights the discriminatory practices that algorithmic decision-making enables - especially as these apply  in the higher education context. We discuss the various problems that surveillance technology and AI pose for higher education and the future of research, scholarship and academic publishing.