Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Herbert I. Schiller Professor Emeritus
Information & Society
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 6, 2021 • 12:00-1:00pm PT
“Algorithmic Manipulation: How Shall We Respond to the Threats and Challenges Before Us?”
Oscar H. Gandy Jr. is an internationally-recognized scholar in the political economy of information and communication, whose work focuses on information subsidies and policy formation, race, privacy and surveillance, discrimination, and media framing and effects. He is the author of Beyond Agenda Setting: Information Subsidies and Public Policy (Ablex Publishers, 1982); Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective (Edward Arnold/Oxford University Press, 1998); Coming to Terms With Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage (Ashgate Publishing, 2009); and The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is also co-editor of Framing Public Life Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World (with Stephen D. Reese and August E. Grant, Routledge, 2001).
Gandy’s recent articles and book chapters include: “Engaging Rational Discrimination: Exploring Reasons for Placing Regulatory Constraints on Decision Support Systems” (Ethics and Information Technology, 2010); “Consumer Protection in Cyberspace” (Triple C: Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, 2011); “The Political Economy of Personal Information” (in The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011); “Statistical Surveillance: Remote Sensing in the Digital Age” (in Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies, Routledge, 2012); “Wedging Equity and Environmental Justice into the Discourse on Sustainability” (Triple C, 2013); “Choosing the Points of Entry: Strategic Framing and the Problem of Hyperincarceration” (Atlantic Journal of Communication, 2014); “Toward a Political Economy of Framing: Putting Inequality on the Public Policy Agenda” (The Political Economy of Communication, 2016); “Framing Inequality in Public Policy Discourse: The Nature of Constraint” (in The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, Oxford University Press, 2017); “Surveillance and the Formation of Public Policy” (Surveillance & Society, 2017); “Exploring Neuromarketing and its Reliance on Remote Sensing: Social and Ethical Concerns” (with Selena Nemorin, International Journal of Communication, 2017); “The Panoptic Sort: Looking Back, Looking Forward” (in Digital Media, Peter Lang, 2017); “Toward a Political Economy of Nudge: Smart City Variations.” (with Selena Nemorin, Information, Communication & Society, 2018); and “Transportation and Smart City Imaginaries: A Critical Analysis of Proposals for the USDOT Smart City Challenge” (with Selena Nemorin, International Journal of Communication, 2020). He also recently wrote an article for Logic [magazine] titled, “Panopticons and Leviathans: Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. on Algorithmic Life” (2020).
Introduction by Janet Wasko, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
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