Hi there, let me present myself, I’m Sara A., probably one of the least “techy” writers on this blog.
I’m a social anthropologist and have worked broadly with different aspects of innovation and design in big corporations, doing my best to represent the “human” side in the otherwise very technology-centered innovation processes (although I know “technology” in some way has always been part of what is human, but we’ll come to that later). With a growing interest in social equality work, combined with the consideration of myself as a somewhat “social media/digital services skeptic”, my role in this blog will be to dive deeper into the field of big data ethics and its implications for equality to try to unpack the grounds of my skeptical stance. One nagging thought of mine is for example if I’m just in a privileged position to afford to be skeptical? Apart from my own posts, I will keep close attention to my fellow bloggers, not least my namesake Sara B who will focus on finding and analyzing positive attempts of using big data for development. So, follow me on my journey where I discover if learning more about big data will change my perspective – I’ll do my very best to keep an open mind.
