Data & Society

Data & Society studies the social implications of data-centric technologies & automation.

The Latest from Data & Society

Essentially Unprotected: Health Data and Surveillance of Essential Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This report explores how essential workers reacted to, and in some cases worked around, public health surveillance in their workplaces.

Digital Dopplegangers: A Workshop on Our Digital Others

This workshop will bring together work and reflections on socio-technical phenomena that speak to digital doubling.

The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms

This series of essays seeks to expand our vocabulary of algorithmic harms — and with it, our capacity to defend ourselves against them.

Essentially Unprotected: Health Data and Surveillance of Essential Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This report explores how essential workers reacted to, and in some cases worked around, public health surveillance in their workplaces.

Digital Dopplegangers: A Workshop on Our Digital Others

This workshop will bring together work and reflections on socio-technical phenomena that speak to digital doubling.

The Social Life of Algorithmic Harms

This series of essays seeks to expand our vocabulary of algorithmic harms — and with it, our capacity to defend ourselves against them.

About Us

Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. We believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology. We study the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation, producing original research that can ground informed, evidence-based public debate.

We combine academic rigor with creative outreach to connect, convene, and sustain expert and practitioner networks. Since 2014, Data & Society has defined the field with original research and programming to break down disciplinary silos and connect provocative thinkers across sectors. Read more

Spotlights

AI in the Majority World

Through empirical work and partnerships, our research invigorates existing efforts to reframe the Global South as home to the majority of the human population — and to investigate and understand the diverse ethics, politics, and experiences of living with data and AI.

Storytelling Workshop

Parables of AI in/from the Global South

This groundbreaking workshop used storytelling to explore new insights on the sociotechnical implication of artificial intelligence and digital IDs in the Global South.

Perspectives

Towards a Mindful Digital Welfare State

In this series, researchers Ranjit Singh and Emnet Tafesse begin to explore what mindful appropriation of digital technologies in the provision of welfare services looks like.

Primer

A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World

A resource by Sareeta Amrute, Ranjit Singh, and Rigoberto Lara Guzmán exploring the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the Majority World.