person
Anna Lauren Hoffmann
UW iSchool; 'data violence' theorist
Associate professor at the University of Washington Information School; coined 'data violence' as a frame for harms perpetrated through data systems, and has written widely on philosophy of information.
current Associate Professor, University of Washington Information School
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues 'fairness' framings underweight the concept of violence done through information systems; calls for moral language adequate to the structural harms produced by data-driven systems.
Data violence describes the cumulative harm produced through everyday operations of data systems, not the spectacular event but the continuous structural injury.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.