Welcome to the first episode of the second season of the Information Ecosystems podcast! We are happy to present a conversation between Alison Langmead and Nora Mattern, two active leader-participants in this community who discuss recent changes to this project and ideas for the future.

This season, the podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/. The list of funded projects is at https://www.yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/funding-opportunity/funded-projects. More examples of digital storytelling during the Year of Data and Society are at https://www.yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/news-full. 

This episode was recorded on Dec. 15, 2021.

The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.