Data is amazing for research, but is it always amazing for researchers? This is the question that Sarah Lamdan poses in her talk, “For Love or Money? What Researchers Should Know about Academic Data Cartels.” Lamdan will cover how academic data analytics has the potential to improve our research opportunities, but can also open pitfalls in academics' paths. “By critiquing the data companies that create academic data products, we can envision an academic data future that benefits research and researchers,” said Lamdan.
The talk will be held via Zoom on February 15 at 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Registration is required. A Zoom link will be shared with registrants the day before the event.
Lamdan is the author Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information, from which Wired Magazine adapted an article “The Quiet Invasion of Big Data."
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Sarah Lamdan is a Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law. She specializes in information law. Her research and advocacy span the spectrum from public information access to personal data privacy.
Sarah Lamdan is also a law librarian with a master's degree in library and information science. When she's not teaching, she works with organizations such as SPARC, NYU's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and other open access and data privacy advocacy groups.