{"id":39399,"date":"2025-03-14T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=39399"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:54","slug":"political-science-hosts-prof-wendy-h-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2025\/political-science-hosts-prof-wendy-h-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science hosts Prof. Wendy H. Wong (UBC) for Keynote Lecture 2025\u00a0&#8220;We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In her topical and stimulating lecture, Prof. Wong expanded on her recent award-winning book <em>We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age<\/em>. As the \u201cghosts of our time,\u201d data have become part of what it means to be human. Pointing out that in many day-to-day activities we are co-creators of our data shadows, Wong called on us to become data stakeholders rather than being mere data subjects. In taking a more active approach to data collection and processing, Wong insisted, the basic values underpinning human rights \u2013 dignity, liberty, equality, and community \u2013 inherited from the analog age can still provide guidance in digital times. However, respect for human rights is being challenged by Big Tech companies (Meta, Google, Amazon, etc.), not simply due to their immense wealth, but because they have come to govern us; a form of governance not working through laws, but rather through access rules and algorithms managing the collection and use of our data. Policymakers and citizens, in turn, are challenged to \u201cgovern the governors\u201d in new and creative ways beyond corporate regulation that heed our human needs and foster our human capacities based on the enduring values on which our human rights are based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/15-Wendy-Wong-Keynote-0996_4000x2500-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Wendy H. Wong\" class=\"wp-image-39405\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/12-Wendy-Wong-Keynote-0981_4000x2514-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"audience with speaker at podium\" class=\"wp-image-39404\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/25-Wendy-Wong-Keynote-1060_3940x2442-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Wendy H. Wong and audience\" class=\"wp-image-39406\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/3-Wendy-Wong-Keynote-0903_4000x2926-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"audience listening to lecture\" class=\"wp-image-39402\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her topical and stimulating lecture, Prof. Wong expanded on her recent award-winning book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. As the \u201cghosts of our time,\u201d data have become part of what it means to be human. Pointing out that in many day-to-day activities we are co-creators of our data shadows, Wong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39409,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39399\/revisions\/39409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}