Event: Data In Society, Not Data As Society — A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble
About
The Penn community is invited to attend Data In Society, Not Data As Society: A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble, part of the Waterhouse Family Institute’s Spring 2026 Transit Talks, a collaborative lecture series hosted jointly by Villanova University, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
In this moderated conversation, Dr. Noble will discuss themes from her book Algorithms of Oppression and examine how commercial information platforms and AI systems can reproduce marginalization and misrepresentation, shaping power and rights through technology. The event will be moderated by Cienna Davis (Annenberg doctoral student) and Julian Quiros, PhD (Annenberg Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow). Light refreshments will be served.
Speaker:
- Safiya U. Noble, PhD — David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor, UCLA; Director, Center on Resilience & Digital Justice; Co-Director, Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power
Moderators:
- Cienna Davis — Doctoral Student, Annenberg School for Communication
- Julian Quiros, PhD — Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication
Sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication and Temple University’s Lew Klein College of Media and Communication
Type: In-Person. Please bring your ID.
Audience: Open to the academic communities of Penn, Temple, and Villanova
Location: Room 500
Registration: Registration Required