A. Aneesh

A. Aneesh is the author of Virtual Migration (2006) who put forward the concept of "algocracy" now widely used to convey the growing importance and threat of algorithms in social life. In Virtual Migration Aneesh discusses the effects of the movement of labor through technology. The idea of algocracy means governance by computer algorithms, instead of bureaucratic rules or surveillance. He is Director of the Institute of World Affairs and Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Previously, he taught in the Science and Technology Program at Stanford University (2001–04). His scholarship intersects several areas of research: globalization, migration, science & technology, and intellectual property. With a wide background in the social and cultural landscape of India and the United States, Aneesh has spent a decade researching and writing about the world of programmers. Over the years his scholarship has included awards and grants from the McArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Population Council, and the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. Recently, Aneesh has published a book, Neutral Accent, on India’s call centers where he has coined a new term "system identities" to denote identity assigned by algorithms to the individual.

Aneesh has been interviewed on public radio and public television, and his work is taught in many universities around the world. He has lived in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Wisconsin in United States and Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh in India.

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He has written or edited the following books:

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"Julian Assange and Osama Bin Laden – enemies of the state?" an op-ed article in the San Francisco Chronicle, 10 December 2010 Interviewed on International Focus, Milwaukee Public Television. Topic: Patenting Life, 17 October 2010 Interviewed on the Gary Null Radio Show on the topic of globalization and poverty (August 2006). Interviewed on At Issue with Ben Merens, Wisconsin Public Radio, on employment and outsourcing, 12 July 2006.

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