Where Do the Data Live?

Randi Heinrichs is a Ph.D. candidate at the Leuphana University, Luneburg, where she is working on her dis- sertation on anonymity, social media platforms and (data-)neighbourhoods. Her research interests, teaching, and writing are located at the intersections of digital cultures, technology, and questions around anonymity, security, fairness and discrimination. She is an alumni of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group at UC Berkeley, USA and affiliated with the Digital Democracies Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal spheres and a collective member of ephemera.