Karen Levy

Karen Levy is an associate professor of information science, an associate member of the faculty at Cornell Law School, and field faculty in sociology, science and technology studies, media studies, and data science.

She researches the legal, organizational, social, and ethical aspects of data-intensive technologies, particularly the impact of data-intensive technologies on work and workers. She is interested in what happens when we use digital technologies to enforce rules and make decisions about people, particularly in contexts marked by conditions of inequality. Levy’s book, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, was published in 2022 by Princeton University Press. She is a New America Fellow and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.