jessegilbert

After five years of dreaming, listening, writing, editing, and hustling, our book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA is finally available to the public!!! Happy launch day to my dear friend and coauthor @booksandbass and thanks to the @mitpress team for all the support.

Much ink and many pixels have been devoted over the past few decades to the “death of privacy,” but the quantum cliff will be something else entirely. As quantum computers become powerful enough to decrypt most of the documents and communications that have relied on security protocols for decades—including intimate chats, medical records, banking credentials, and state secrets—the death of secrecy may be imminent. ⁠ ⁠ To break down this coming cataclysm, we got the authors of THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA from @mitpress , Aram Sinnreich (@booksandbass ) and Jesse Gilbert (@jessegilbert ), to explain the stakes and sketch a way through, if not out. ⁠ ⁠ 🩻🔗Read more on PW Broadcast at the link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ 🖼️Artwork by Nick Veasey @nickveaseyxray

THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA, hosted by @isoclive . Free on @eventbrite : /e/book-talk-aram-sinnreich-jesse-gilbert-with-paul-miller-dj-spooky-tickets-1982629167210

Packed house at @pioneerworks yesterday at the book talk for "The Secret Life of Data" with @jessegilbert @booksandbass @djspooky_official . Pic by @gponniah

Yesterday at @pioneerworks with @djspooky_official & @jessegilbert . Vid by @vickiisimon 🎶🔥

🎶✨ The countdown is on! ✨🎶 Jenn Johns kicks off her residency at Mama Dog Studios in just a couple of days! Join us this Saturday at 7PM for an unforgettable night of live music, sustainable food, local vendors, and community vibes you won’t want to miss. 🎟️ Get your tickets now at /events — let’s make magic together! 💫 #JennJohns #MamaDogStudios #LiveMusic #BayAreaEvents #TheFunManifesto #OaklandVibes #SupportLocalArtists #CommunityLove #MusicThatHeals #SoulfulSounds #Community #GetYourTickets #Healingjourney

The AoIR Nancy Baym Annual Book Award committee is happy to announce the winner of this year’s award. We received nearly 30 nominations for 2025 and the decision was not an easy one. The winner of the 2025 Nancy Baym Book Award is *The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance* by Aram Sinnreich @booksandbass and Jesse Gilbert @jessegilbert (The MIT Press). This book makes a distinctive and timely contribution to the study of data and, more importantly, a critical intervention in how we understand the cultural, political, and social significance of data in contemporary life. The book addresses one of the most pressing issues in internet research and public policy today: the ways in which data circulate, mutate, and elude fixed meaning, shaping—and being shaped by—human interpretation across systems, societies, and time. The committee would also like to recognize,* Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power* by Tiziano Bonini @tizianobonini & Emiliano Treré (The MIT Press) with an Honorable Mention. This book makes an innovative and timely contribution to the saturated research field on the role of algorithms in society. By focusing on the precarious labor force of delivery drivers, Trere and Bonini shed new light on the micropolitics of “gaming the algorithm” and the interfaces through which algorithmic power is experienced, negotiated, and resisted. This perspective, reminiscent of Weapons of the Weak, highlights how human and strategic agency can influence, reshape, and even subvert what platforms produce. International in scope, Algorithms of Resistance further offers a fresh comparative angle and provides a rich foundation for future research. AoIR is very grateful for the work of this year’s committee: Jun Liu, Committee Chair (University of Copenhagen); Nancy Baym, (Microsoft); Dr Niki Cheong (King’s College London); Dr Helton Levy (London Metropolitan University); Robert Tynes (Bard College); John McNutt (University of Delaware); Sarah Murray, (University of Michigan). /2025nb_bookaward/

Thank you to the people of Detroit and @diadetroit for hosting our Immersive Multimedia Show “The Fourth Light” last night. The otherworldly Semazen (whirling dervish) @radiasilencia mesmerized us as always with incredible real time generated interactive visuals by my beloved talented friend @jessegilbert Such an honor to share the stage with such talented and soulful artists ❤️‍🔥 #niyazband #niyaz #azamali #multimedia #interactive #electronicmusic #worldmusic

So grateful to have spent the last month at @lucasartres - being in community with a special group of artists, spending time in nature, making new friends and reconnecting with old ones. It’s hard to express what this place means to me - all I can say is thank you!

📆 FEB 28 📆 @jessegilbert and I will be in conversation with @TIME writer Andrew Chow about our book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA. Free event at @ausoc in Washington #DC. Sponsored by the @stuyvesanthighschool alumni association. #books #events #dataprivacy #data #privacy

Casting out a net - can anyone recommend a responsible cat sitter who is available over the Thanksgiving holiday? Need to find coverage for this cutie

Nice shots of me and @jessegilbert reading from our book The Secret Life of Data (@mitpress ) at @townhall_seattle last week, courtesy of our friend Simon.