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Davis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University with a secondary appointment in Vanderbilt's College of Connected Computing (CCC). She is an Honorary Professor of Sociology at The Australian National University, an alumni affiliate at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Co-Director of Vanderbilt's Computing + Society program. She works at the intersection of social psychology and technology studies, focusing on the ways social forces embed within and are affected by, technological systems. Her first book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things (MIT Press 2020) presents an operational framework for the analysis and design of technologies in society. Her second book, The Injustice of Fairness: Algorithmic Reparation and the Case for Redress shifts the foundation of algorithmic ethics, challenging 'fairness' as the default value-standard (co-authored with Apryl Williams) (UC Press, 2026).\n\nJuli\u00e1n Posada is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and co-director of the certificate in Computing, Culture, and Society at Yale University. His research examines the social and cultural dimensions of information, especially the role of labor and infrastructure in the development of artificial intelligence. He is the author of Platform Extractivism: Data Work and The People Powering Artificial Intelligence (University of California Press, 2026). This book argues that the development of datasets for artificial intelligence depends on labor organized through \u201cplatform extractivism,\u201d a system that exploits economic instability to capture value from precaritized workers. 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