DATA DECODED
This podcast series explores the ways that activists gather and make sense of data.
Each episode we interview an activist and ask them about the creative methods they’ve developed for archiving and visualizing data, confronting surveillance infrastructures and fostering communities that invite us to think differently.
Join us as we learn new ways to use data from these incredible activists to change the world for good.
EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2
This episode, the Data Justice Hub chats with the founder of Queering the Map, Lucas LaRochelle, as they discuss their work archiving the experiences of queer folks and their allies through the individual submission of self-described queer experiences and feelings worldwide. LaRochelle also discusses the importance of community care and safety as themselves and their team navigate homophobia, transphobia, and doxxing. Join us as we explore the importance of queering archiving and what it means to preserve history in our latest episode.
EPISODE 3
In this episode, the Data Justice Hub team speaks with No Tech for ICE about their work confronting the surveillance of marginalized BIPOC/Latinx communities by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States. The head of the campaign, Jacinta Gonalez, discusses new technologies used by ICE in tracking and deporting immigrants, the private corporations that collaborate in providing ICE with data, as well as how we can go about resisting this emerging surveillance regime.
EPISODE 4
Join us this week as we discuss the Corporate Mapping Project with Dr. William Carroll of the University of Victoria. The Corporate Mapping Project is aimed at gathering data relating to the problematic involvement in the fossil fuel industry from corporations, universities, and government bodies throughout Canada. Dr. Carroll and his team have spent years collecting and analyzing the publicly available data used to discern this harmful involvement to bring public awareness to these institutions’ financial and environmental impact.
EPISODE 5
This week, the Data Justice Hub sat down with Jason Scott of Archive Team as he discusses the intricacies of archiving the internet. We explore what it means to be a member of Archive Team and the ethics of archiving everything posted on the internet. Archive Team have spent years documenting all kinds of websites and information from all over the world to ensure that our internet history is preserved for anyone who may be interested.
EPISODE 6
COMING SOON
In this final episode, the Data Justice Hub speaks with IMPACT Toronto about access to information and the housing crisis in their city. This grassroots organization speaks to the importance of public education and the dangers of rising rents both in Toronto and all over Canada.
INTERVIEW WITH HARBINGER MEDIA
Check out our interview on CUTV’s Community Media Livestream! Join Hannah Grover and Chris Hurl from the Data Justice Hub and Andre Goulet from Harbinger Media as they talk about our new podcast, Data Decoded.