Shows
Data & Society[Live] The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource ExtractionBooks Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City (Alexis Madrigal)Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (Xiaowei Wang)
2025-05-0559 min
Code Green06: Material AI & the Mineral Supply ChainAI is often framed as the future of progress, but what fuels this revolution? Behind every data centre, semiconductor, and AI model lies a hidden world of resource extraction, geopolitical power struggles, and environmental destruction. In this episode, we dig into the raw materials powering AI—from rare earth mining to data centres sucking up water in drought-prone regions. Experts Tom Özden-Schilling and Tamara Kneese reveal the true cost of AI’s rapid expansion—its human and ecological toll—and why the conversation on sustainability must move beyond carbon footprints to the messy realities of global supply chains.You can...2025-03-0654 min
The Death Studies PodcastThe 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and Tamara Kneese on digital death, genAI, ethics, data, society & collective actionWhat's the episode about?In this episode, hear highlights from the 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7) and Tamara Kneese on digital death, genAI, ethics, moving from academia to the private sector, data, society & collective actionWhat was DORS#7?The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online ResearchNetwork (DORS#7) on October 3rd–5th, 2024 was titled Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife. Hear soundbites and learn about the conference presentations and events in this episode! Who is Tamara?Dr. Tamara Kn...2025-03-041h 31
American Campus PodcastEd tech and student surveillance with Lindsay WeinbergAlexa in the dorm room. ProctorU monitoring exams. TurnItIn helping* faculty grade. Tech services are omnipresent on and off campus, and they come with a cost. Lindsay Weinberg offers a critical analysis of today's Smart Universities.Lindsay Weinberg. 2025. Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age. Johns Hopkins University Press.Tamara Kneese. January 27, 2021. "How a Dead Professor is Teaching a University Art History Class." Slate.Sonel Cutler. March 29, 2024. "Graduate Students Went on Strike. Then a Dean Suggested That Professors Use AI to Keep Classes Going." The Chronicle of Higher Education.Alex Hanna and Emily Bender. 2025. The AI Con...2025-02-2620 min
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 50 - Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese)Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the energy we "need" to develop AGI. Meanwhile, what if we just...put data centers on the Moon to save energy? Alex, Emily, and guest Tamara Kneese pour cold water on Silicon Valley's various unhinged, technosolutionist ideas about energy and the environment.
Dr. Tamara Kneese is director of climate, technology and justice at the Data & Society Research Institute
Due to some technical issues during our recording, this week's episode is a bit shorter than usual.
References:
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the energy we "need" to develop AGI. Meanwhile, what if we just...put data centers on the Moon to save energy? Alex, Emily, and guest Tamara Kneese pour cold water on Silicon Valley's various unhinged, technosolutionist ideas about energy and the environment.Dr. Tamara Kneese is director of climate, technology and justice at the Data & Society Research InstituteDue to some technical issues during our recording, this week's episode is a bit shorter than usual.References:...2025-02-1946 minMystery AI Hype Theater 3000Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 50 - Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese)Sam Altman thinks fusion - particularly a company he's personally invested in - can provide the energy we "need" to develop AGI. Meanwhile, what if we just...put data centers on the Moon to save energy? Alex, Emily, and guest Tamara Kneese pour cold water on Silicon Valley's various unhinged, technosolutionist ideas about energy and the environment.
Dr. Tamara Kneese is director of climate, technology and justice at the Data & Society Research Institute
Due to some technical issues during our recording, this week's episode is a bit shorter than usual.
References:
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The Nation PodcastsWhat Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese | Tech Won't Save UsOn this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Tamara Kneese to discuss the difficult question of what happens to our digital presence after we die and why some tech billionaires are so desperate to make themselves into chatbots. Tamara Kneese is a researcher, organizer, and author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2024-09-2657 min
Tech Won't Save UsWhat Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara KneeseParis Marx is joined by Tamara Kneese to discuss the difficult question of what happens to our digital presence after we die and why some tech billionaires are so desperate to make themselves into chatbots.Tamara Kneese is a researcher, organizer, and author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is ma...2024-09-2657 min
Shaken Not BurnedSeason 3 - Ep 2: AI, sustainability and the tech industry with Data & Society's AIMLabThis week Felicia talks to Dr Tamara Kneese, a senior researcher and project director at Data & Society's Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab about the questions that need to be asked about the use of AI, its impact on the tech industry and how to use it mindfully. While there are huge opportunities to address climate and sustainability challenges (in terms of circularity, monitoring and managing the grid, carbon management, efficiency, new materials creation and more) challenges lie in the impact on labour, energy demand, and the acceleration of extractive industries.The discussion highlights the complex challenges...2024-09-1239 min
The Glam Reaper PodcastDeath Glitch: How Tech is Changing Mourning ForeverIn this episode, Jennifer Muldowney sits down with Tamara Kneese, Author, and Leader of the Data & Society Research Institute’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab. They explore the intersection of death, and technology. Tamara, an academic and writer, shares her unique insights into how technology is rapidly changing the landscape of digital legacy and mourning. From her book "Death Glitch" to recent discussions on AI and grief, Tamara reflects on the evolving challenges and the necessity for continuous research in the field of Death and Tech.The conversation delves into the history and evolution of digital cult...2024-08-0525 min
librarypunk132 - Death Glitch feat. Tamara KneeseThis week we’re talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more!
Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
Media mentioned
Tamara’s presentation at the Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfjjwmJ1Hc
Anya Bernstein Russian immortalists in the 19th century https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/anya-bernstein
Jacob Boss https://aiandfaith.org/featured-interview-jacob-boss
https://www.wired.com/sto...2024-07-0345 min
Hub & Spoken: Data | Analytics | Chief Data Officer | CDO | Data StrategyAssessing the impact of algorithmic systems with Tamara KneeseJoin Jason Foster in this thought-provoking discussion with Tamara Kneese, the lead of the Algorithmic Methods Lab at Data & Society Research Institute, to delve into the intricate world of algorithmic systems and their far-reaching impacts. In this episode, they tackle the pressing questions surrounding the assessment of algorithms—environmental impact, societal fairness, and the need for responsible AI. Join the conversation as they discuss the challenges and opportunities these systems present and the vital steps organisations must take to navigate their influence. ***** Cynozure is a leading data, analytics and AI company that helps organisations to reach their dat...2024-06-0635 min
Environment VariablesEnvironment Variables Year Two RoundupJoin us for a special episode of Environment Variables as we celebrate over a year two years of bringing you the best insights on Green Software! In this episode, we explore the key insights and voices that have contributed to the weaving of sustainability through our conversations this year. Tune in for a refresher on the most interesting discussions on the progress, challenges, and future of green software development.Find out more about the GSF:The Green Software Foundation Website Sign up to the Green Software Foundation NewsletterEpisodes:The Week in Green Software: AWS & Scope 3 E...2024-05-2331 min
Never PostEternal ReturnGeorgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then talks about men who throw ping pong balls into solo cups. ALSO: chill, lo-fi, public domain beats.-Share the show with a friend! https://www.neverpo.st/–Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us...2024-02-2848 min
The Technically Human PodcastTaking the Temperature of AI: Measuring AI's Environmental ImpactIn this episode of the show, I talk to Dr. Tamara Kneese about Data and Society's initiative to develop standards and ways to measure the environmental impact of AI. I talk to Dr. Kneese about her work at the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab (AIMLab), we talk about the links and frictions between tech and climate change, and we consider how AI may be changing how we experience not only life, but also our experience of death.
Dr. Tamara Kneese is Project Director of Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab, where she is also a Senior Researcher. Fo...2024-02-161h 05
This Machine Kills313. The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)We’re joined by Tamara Kneese — author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond — to discuss her work on how experiences of death and dying shape the internet, the afterlife promised by digital resurrection, the strange quest to solve death, the transhumanist urge to escape death, and the entropic decay of digital infrastructure.
••• Follow Tamara | https://twitter.com/tamigraph
••• Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
••• Memento Mori https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/memento-mori-kneese
••• Measuring Justice: Field Notes on Algorithmic Impact Assessments https://medium.com/datasociety-points/measuring-justice-field-notes...2024-01-271h 30
PodQueueCaring for Digital RemainsTamara Kneese | Twitter (X): @tamigraph | Mastodon: @tamigraph
Tamara Kneese is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab. Before joining D&S, she was lead researcher at Green Software Foundation, director of developer engagement on the green software team at Intel, and assistant professor of media studies and director of gender and sexualities studies at the University of San Francisco. Her first book, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, was published by Yale University Press in August 2023.
Tamara’s research juxtaposes histories of computing and automation with ethnographies of platform labor. She’s curre...2023-12-1459 min
Data & SocietyCaring for Digital Remains | Tamara Kneese and Tonia Sutherland | Network Book ForumWhen people die, they leave behind not only physical belongings, but digital ones. While they might have had specific wishes for what happens to their online profiles and accounts after their deaths, preserving these digital remains is complex and requires specialized forms of care. Because digital remains are attached to corporate platforms — which have control over what online legacies look like and how long they continue — people’s digital afterlives are not necessarily the ones they would have chosen for themselves.
On November 16, Tamara Kneese and Tonia Sutherland came together for a conversation about their books, which both foreground death as a s...2023-11-2159 min
Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on FireTamara Kneese on Death in the Digital Platform AgeIn episode 157 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar and Ideas on Fire author Tamara Kneese about the complex relationship between Big Tech and mortality, specifically how digital media platforms mediate our experiences of death. Tamara is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab, and her new book Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond was recently published by Yale University Press. In their conversation, Tamara and Cathy chat about how platform economies built around planned obsolescence shape our experiences of life and death, as we...2023-11-1421 min
Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara KneesePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond Author: Tamara Kneese Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just...2023-10-2430 min
Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Computers & TechnologyDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara KneesePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond Author: Tamara Kneese Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just...2023-10-2430 min
Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMUTamara Kneese, author of "Death Glitch" from Aug 28, 2023
Tamara Kneese, author, "Death Glitch"
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https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/131265
2023-08-2900 minEnvironment VariablesThe State of Green Software Survey with Tamara KneeseIn this episode of Environment Variables, we cover the State of Green Software Report with the Green Software Foundation’s very own lead researcher Tamara Kneese. She and host Chris Adams delve into the insights from the report including key topics such as the carbon footprint of crypto mining, regulations for generative AI, and the role of consulting firms in shaping emerging technologies. They also discuss how the results highlighted the impact of the tech industry, AI sustainability, and the need for responsible innovation. To find out just how interesting the results of the survey have been and everything in be...2023-06-2144 min
Deep Pacific PodcastWhat do Pasifika people think about settlers?[EP#9: DECOLONIZATION SERIES #3]
What do Pasifika people think about settlers?
Five Indigenous Pacific Islanders speak out on settlers and settler-colonialism. Kalani then goes into a summary of a paper on Radical Care and Survival Strategies Written by Dr. Hi’ilei Julia Hobart, a Pasifika scholar and researcher, and Dr. Tamara Kneese.
You will hear from:
Temiti, our awesome Samoan Ma’ohi (Tahitian) educator
Rhonda, an Indigenous iTaukei (Fijian) from Viti
Tēatuahere, our favorite beautiful poetic Ma’ohi (Tahitian) soul
Ha’åni, our Chamoru Samoan graduate student and future decolonization powerhouse
Kawena, our favorite angry Hawa...2020-11-261h 14
Still SpokenThe Gift from Beyond the Grave: Kim Kardashian's Birthday Present, with Patrick StokesJust in time for Halloween, the news hit that Kanye West gifted his wife a hologram of her late father as a 40th birthday surprise. Is this the best or worst present ever? And should we be treating this as a weird headline about those crazy celebrities, or as a wakeup call for us all?Elaine Kasket, psychologist and author of All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of Your Personal Data (2020) talks to Patrick Stokes, philosopher based at Deakin University in Australia and author of Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death (2021) about the...2020-10-3027 min