Welcome to the fifth and final episode of the third season of the Information Ecosystem podcast, hosted by Grace DeLallo and created in affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh.

This episode, “What Have We Learned,” looks at the projects the cohort undertook in this project structure and some of the takeaways, including lessons learned. We look at building ethical relationships, leaving room for transparency, integrating community projects into student work and look at what we can gain through collaboration — all culminating into an outlook for this project and begin to imagine what more we can accomplish with more support and funding.

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Thank you to Alison Langmead for supporting this podcast and the DS4SJ PI Sera Linardi for her work in making all of these projects possible.

Welcome to the fourth episode of the third season of the Information Ecosystems podcast, hosted by Grace DeLallo and created in affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh. This episode, “Data Ethics with Dr. Katie Shilton,” looks at the implications of data collection and research, and how that process can be more ethical, inspired by a talk Dr. Shilton delivered at the University in December of 2022. The DS4SJ project prioritizes faculty, student, and community relationships, so matching the impact with the intent of projects involving data and research is crucial for empowering communities in the way this framework strives to.

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This episode was hosted and produced by Grace DeLallo, a senior undergraduate student pursuing a Writing major and Political Science minor at the University of Pittsburgh.  

Thank you to Dr. Shilton for participating in this episode.

Welcome to the third episode of the third season of the Information Ecosystems podcast, hosted by Grace DeLallo and created in affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh. This episode, “Outside of the Silo,” looks at the interdisciplinary mentoring that can lead to student and community-facing project success. The new Spring 2023 cohort was informally introduced, since the DS4SJ project is expanding to meet the demands of implementing an institutionalized framework and continuing ethical community work.

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This episode was hosted and produced by Grace DeLallo, a senior undergraduate student pursuing a Writing major and Political Science minor at the University of Pittsburgh.  

Thank you to Brett Say, Emmaline Rial, and Piper Nandorf for agreeing to participate in this episode.

Welcome to the second episode of the third season of the Information Ecosystems podcast, created in affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh. This episode, “Imagining and Creating Pathways,” looks at the individual projects that make up the DS4SJ (Data Science 4 Social Justice) ecosystem at Pitt. Members of this community clue us in as to what their participation entails and how it serves the broader seed goals. Thank you to the cohort members and their teams for their diligent work, and thank you to AlisonLangmead for her support of this podcast.

PLEASE NOTE: There were significant technical difficulties with a few of the interviews. We very much apologize. Please follow this link for a transcript of this episode.

This episode was hosted and produced by Grace DeLallo, a senior undergraduate student pursuing a Writing major and Political Science minor at the University of Pittsburgh.  

Thanks also to those who participated in this episode, Bob Gradeck, Eleanor Anderson, Ashlynn Salvage, Kiara Jimenez, Nora Mattern, Natasha Williams, Zarah Glaze and Ivy Chang.

Welcome to the first episode of the third season of the Information Ecosystem podcast, entitled “Filling the Gaps, Disrupting the Norms: An Introduction to DS4SJ.” This series of the podcast will feature seven episodes that detail the Data Science for Social Justice year-long project at the University of Pittsburgh. It aims to inform people of the relationship between communities, academic institutions and the technological resources available to them. 

This episode was hosted and produced by Grace DeLallo, a senior undergraduate student pursuing a Writing major and Political Science minor at the University of Pittsburgh.  

Thank you to Sera Linardi, Ron Idoko, and Nora Mattern for contributing to this episode by speaking with us about social justice, data science, DS4SJ, and what they all mean. Information Ecosystems is created in affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh.

Today's episode follows a project undertaken by Homewood Youth-Powered and Engaged (HYPE) Media to research and write a comprehensive Wikipedia page for Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh. Stops along the way include discussions about information, power and the Internet; interdisciplinarity in community-engaged work; and the experience of the students involved in the project. The interviewer, Briana Wipf, speaks to Dr. Khirsten L. Scott, Elise Silva, Dr. Jaime Booth and students at the Westinghouse Highschool in Pittsburgh about their work on this important initiative. 

To learn more about Dr. Scott’s work, including HYPE Media, visit https://khirstenlscott.com/ and https://www.composition.pitt.edu/people/khirsten-l-scott. For more about Elise Silva’s work, visit https://composition.pitt.edu/people/elise-silva. For more about Dr. Booth’s work, visit https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/jaime-booth. Students of Westinghouse High School who are members are HYPE Media and who worked on this project include La’Niya Brown, Kayla Butler, Sanai Carey, Nadia Dixon, Kamiyah Hall, Teresia Luster, and Amber Taylor. Visit the Westinghouse High School Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_High_School_(Pittsburgh).    

Interviews for this episode were recorded on April 3 and April 4, 2022. 

This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.  

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.   

A digital humanities librarian, project manager and researcher, philosopher, and law professor walk into a podcast... Hear what happens in today’s episode, which features four members of the Year of Data and Society Steering Committee: Tyrica Terry-Kapral, Liz Monk, Lisa Parker, and Mike Madison. The interviewer is Briana Wipf. This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.  

For more about Terry-Kapral's work, visit https://cadatpitt.github.io/. For more about Lisa Parker’s work, visit https://bioethics.pitt.edu/people/lisa-s-parker-phd. For more about Liz Monk’s work, visit https://ucsur.pitt.edu/index.php. For more about Mike Madison, visit https://www.law.pitt.edu/people/michael-j-madison. Give his podcast a listen at https://omny.fm/shows/future-law-podcast-1.  

Interviews for this episode were recorded between March 22, and April 4, 2022. 

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.   

Sustaining digital projects can be challenging. In today’s episode, four Pitt researchers discuss why, and why it’s so important to try.  The interviewees in this episode are Judy L. Cameron, Abhishek Viswanathan, Bridget Keown and Sera Linardi. The interviewer is Briana Wipf. This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.  

To learn more about the guests’ funded projects, visit https://www.yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/funding-opportunity/funded-projects. This episode was recorded on Friday, March 25, 2022.  

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.   

The interviewee in this episode is Marcia Rapchak. The interviewer is Briana Wipf. The conversation for this episode focuses on the ethics surrounding the collection of student data by learning management systems. 

This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/. For more about Rapchak’s work, visit https://www.sci.pitt.edu/people/marcia-rapchak. This episode was recorded on Tuesday, March 29, 2022.

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.

The interviewee in this episode is Sharon Leon. The interviewer is Briana Wipf. This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/. For more about Leon’s work, visit https://history.msu.edu/people/faculty/sharon-leon/. For more about the Jesuit Plantation Project II, visit http://jesuitplantationproject.org/s/jpp/page/welcome. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022.  

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.