Julian Posada

Postdoctoral Associate, American Studies

YALE UNIVERSITY

Julian Posada is a Postdoctoral Associate and incoming Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University (starting in July 2023). He is also Faculty Affiliate at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). His research integrates theories and methods from information studies, sociology, and human–computer interaction to study technology and society. He is currently exploring how the artificial intelligence industry perpetuates coloniality by focusing on the relationship between human labor and data production. This research focuses on the experiences of outsourced workers in Latin America employed by digital platforms to produce machine learning data and verify algorithmic outputs.