# Event Details - **Event Name**: danah boyd: Data Are Made, Not Found - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 30 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Wed, 30 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: This lecture is sponsored by the Digital Civics InitiativeAbout this EventDr danah boyd's Talk:In the United States, the census is democracy’s data. These data make politics - and politics make these data. “Data Are Made, Not Found” tells the story of what it took for the US Census Bureau to make its canonical data in 2020, amidst a pandemic, natural disasters, and political pressure. The making of these data is more than meets the eye. After all, what do government officials do when people refuse to participate or when workers submit fabricated data? And how does the government balance the competing goals of publishing as much data as possible without inadvertently breaching the confidentiality of the public? To complicate matters, government officials must navigate “Jenga politics” as both well-intended and malevolent actors try to achieve their goals by weakening the administrative state and putting pressure on a wobbly structure. Civil servants do their best to keep the tower from collapsing, but the precarity is real. In this talk, danah boyd will discuss what it takes to make democracy’s data - and what those who care about data and democracy should understand about the complexities of making high-stakes data.Digital Civics Initiative: New Civic Terrains Speaker SeriesThe Digital Civics Initiative at Northeastern University is an interdisciplinary platform dedicated to understanding and reshaping the civic dimensions of digital technologies in contemporary life. The initiative brings together scholars, educators, activists, technologists, and artists whose work engages questions of technology and education, labor and automation, governance and public institutions, surveillance and data justice, environmental sustainability, community organizing, and human-centered approaches to machine learning and artificial intelligence. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/boston/danah-boyd-data-are-made-not-found/100001999803855164 - **Event Categories**: art, theatre, artificial-intelligence - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Snell Library (Room 160) - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Boston - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Snell Library (Room 160) - **lat**: 42.3392591 - **long**: -71.08681349999999 - **full address**: Snell Library (Room 160), 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: danah boyd: Data Are Made, Not Found - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/8790333be6f899c81c22f4e20531cfb18d036a9adb486df51de3658334292056-rimg-w800-h400-dce8e8e8-gmir.jpg?v=1789482252 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is danah boyd: Data Are Made, Not Found being held? - **A:** danah boyd: Data Are Made, Not Found takes place on Wed, 30 Sep, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Wed, 30 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Snell Library (Room 160), 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing danah boyd: Data Are Made, Not Found? - **A:** danah boyd: Data Are Made, Not Found is organized by Digital Civics Initiative: Northeastern University. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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