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Unlocking the secrets of the digital library

Apr 12, 2017, Anne L. Washington

D&S fellow Anne L. Washington discusses her previous research as a digital government scholar and her upcoming work examining US open data policy, funded through a five-year National Science...

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Ten simple rules for responsible big data research

Mar 30, 2017, Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale

As the size and complexity of available datasets has grown, so too have the ethical questions raised by big data research.

Read more on PLOS Computational Biology...

Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans

Mar 11, 2017, Mary Madden, Michele E. Gilman, Karen Levy, Alice E. Marwick

An examination on how poor Americans are impacted by privacy violations with discussion on how to protect digital privacy for the vulnerable.

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Data & Society's speaker series – Databites – is geared toward engaging our network and the broader public on unresolved questions and timely topics of interest to the D&S community.

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Databite No. 95: Amanda Lenhart, Alice Marwick, & Zara Rahman on Online Harassment, Risky Research, and Activism

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