Why Information Matters?
An Information Animal Podcast interview with Dr. Libby Hemphill
We promised a little break in the podcast series while we regrouped for a new format. Well, today is the day! As part of The Information Animal Podcast, we’re adding interviews with experts from a range of disciplines informing the field of information ecology - and Dr. Libby Hemphill agreed to the experiment.
Libby is a an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her research sits at the intersection of AI, human labor, and data infrastructure. Her work on metadata generation and curation infrastructure advances the long-term accessibility and trustworthiness of data. She also directs the Resource Center for Minority Data and Social Media Archive at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Libby also happens to be a collaborator on our work assessing national information ecosystems.
We hope the quality of our podcasting improves over time, but if you can get past my initial stiffness, you’ll find a fun and insightful conversation.
About The Information Animal Podcast
The Information Animal Podcast draws on ideas from a book of the same name, exploring modern and historic information ecosystems. This limited series covers concepts like information competition and how an emerging field of information ecology can help us understand the human relationship to the modern information environment.
The series is hosted by Dr. Alicia Wanless, who is the director of the Information Environment Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which aims to foster evidence-based policymaking for the governance of national information ecosystems. Alicia is the author of The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality.
Watch past episodes.