CANCELLED: Seminar – The Digital Prism: Transparency and Managed Visibilities in a Datafied World

The Organisational Theory & Information Systems subject group regrets that this seminar has been cancelled.

Professor Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School

Digital technologies expose everything we do, like and search for, and it is difficult to remain private and out of sight. How can we as individuals, organisations and societies, deal with these technological and social transformations? Seen through the prism of digital technologies and data, our lives take new shapes and we are forced to manage our visibilities carefully. Meanwhile, many people are concerned about the unchecked powers of tech giants and the hidden operations of big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms and call for more openness and accountability. The Digital Prism: Transparency and Managed Visibilities in a Datafied World is a book that challenges common ways of thinking about transparency, and argues that the management of visibilities is a crucial, but overlooked force that influences how people live, how organisations work, and how societies and politics operate in a digital, datafied world. The book has just been published by Cambridge University Press.

Speaker bio

Mikkel Flyverbom is Professor and Director of the Digital Transformations Platform at the Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a columnist for the Danish newspaper Politiken and a frequently consulted expert on tech issues.