Knowing without Seeing

Knowing without Seeing is a research project which explores meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms, and privileges understanding over merely accessing information. I will critically question the transparency ideal in the context of AI systems employing opaque algorithms and will culminate in an open-access book. This research will view transparency as an instrumental value designed to achieve accountability of systems by empowering individuals. I will articulate the contours of this version of transparency and speculate how it may be delivered in practice, and assimilated in regulation.

The Networked Public

In this book, I investigate the history of misinformation and the biases that make the public susceptible to it, how digital platforms and their governance impacts the public’s behaviour on them, as well as the changing face of political targeting in this data-driven world. The book weaves sharp analysis with academic rigour to show that while the public can be irrational and gullible, their actions—be it mob violence or spreading fake news—are symptoms of deeper social malaise and products of their technological contexts.

The book is available for sale here.