Karen Levy

New Arizona Fellow, 2019

Karen Levy, New Arizona Fellow, spent her fellowship year writing her book, Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance, which investigates the emergence of digital technologies in the U.S. long-haul trucking industry. The book considers truckers as a case study to contribute to public debates about automation, data collection, and the future of work in the digital age. Levy is an assistant professor in the department of information science at Cornell University and associated faculty at Cornell Law School, where she researches the social, legal, and ethical dimensions of new technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

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