Kate Crawford (born 1976) is a writer, composer, producer and academic. Crawford is a principal researcher at

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(Social Media Collective), the co-founder and former director of research at the

AI Now Institute The AI Now Institute at NYU (AI Now) is an American research institute studying the social implications of artificial intelligence. AI Now was founded by Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker in 2017 after a symposium hosted by the White House und ...

at NYU, a visiting professor at the

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, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of the

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's Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development. Her research focuses on social change and media technologies, particularly on the intersection of humans, mobile devices, and social networks. She has published on cultures of technology use and the way media histories inform the present.

Background

Crawford was previously part of the

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electronic music duo

B(if)tek B(if)tek was an Australian electronic music duo comprising Kate Crawford and Nicole Skeltys, which formed in Canberra in 1994. They released three albums, ''Sub-Vocal Theme Park'' (1996), ''2020'' (2000) and ''Frequencies Will Move Together'' ...

(along with

Nicole Skeltys Nicole Skeltys is an Australian composer. From 1993 to 2003 she was part of ''B(if)tek'', an electronica and dance act. Skeltys also released electronic music under the name ''Artificial'' during this period and was a member of Clan Analogue. I ...

) and released three albums between 1998 and 2003. Crawford co-founded the Sydney-based Deluxe Mood Recordings record label and is a member of the

Clan Analogue Clan Analogue is an Australian record label which started in 1992 as a collective by a number of individuals interested and active in electronic music and with a shared passion for analogue synthesisers and digital culture. History Producer, ...

music collective. As a writer Crawford has written for '' The Sydney Morning Herald'' and

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. She was a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and in March 2008 she was selected as one of 1000 Australians to attend the Australia 2020 Summit in Canberra on 19–20 April 2008. She is a member of the feminist collective

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Academic work

Crawford has a PhD from the University of Sydney. In 2006 her book based on this dissertation, ''Adult Themes – Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood'', won the individual category of the Manning Clark National Cultural Award and in 2008 she received the biennial medal for outstanding scholarship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Crawford has spoken and published academic papers on such topics as social media, government regulation of media content, the interplay between gender and mobile devices, young people and sexting, and

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. She has given keynote addresses at venues such as the 2013 O'Reilly Strata Conference and the 2013 DataEDGE conference hosted by the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. She co-authored a book called "Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media, and Power" in 2014. In 2017 Crawford established the research institute

with

Meredith Whittaker Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on their board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute. ...

. It is associated with New York University Tandon School of Engineering. In 2019 she was the inaugural holder of the AI & Justice visiting chair at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, in partnership wit
Fondation Abeona
She published a book ''Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence'' through Yale University Press in 2021. Her article, "Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion", was shortlisted for The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in 2022.

References

External links

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B(if)tek Official Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Kate Living people Australian women composers Australian non-fiction writers Writers from Sydney Scientific American people University of New South Wales faculty 1976 births