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    Kavita Dattani
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    • Dr Kavita Dattani

    Former Postdoctoral Researcher

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    About

    Kavita is a feminist researcher of digital technologies. Broadly, Kavita’s work seeks to uncover the ways in which new digital technologies are enabling particular forms of urban marginality, and the potentials for overcoming these. She has conducted research on biometric technologies, gig-economy work platforms and digital dating apps.

    Research Interests

    Digital Platforms, Data and Algorithms, Platform Work, Feminist and Postcolonial approaches to Digital Technology

    Positions at the OII

    • Postdoctoral Researcher, September 2022 - August 2023

    Contact

    kavita.dattani@oii.ox.ac.uk
    ORCID

    Recordings

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    Creepy Glitches: Data, Desire and Domestic Work

    With Dr Kavita Dattani

    Kavita draws on the work of feminist thinkers to take up the 'creepy glitch' as a framework to illuminate techno-masculinist normativities in data systems, and to find opportunities for disruption.

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