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Data & SocietyThis report by Health & Data researchers Livia Garofalo, Amanda Lenhart, Ireti Akinrinade and Joan Mukogosi explores how essential workers reacted to, and in some cases worked around, public health surveillance in their workplaces, set up in response to COVID-19. Read moreFebruary 2023 -
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ProPublicaD&S affiliate Surya Mattu with Julia Angwin examine how Amazon's shopping algorithm directs customers to buy Amazon or Amazon-affiliated sellers' merchandise, even if products from other sellers on the platform cost much le... Read on ProPublicaSeptember 2016 -
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The NationD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrtington writes about the history of the term "predictive policing", the pressures on police forces that are driving them to embrace data-driven policing, and the many valid causes for conc... Read on The NationMay 2015 -
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The AtlanticThe grand finale of D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington's gonzo series of essays on Internet infrastructures, this piece explores northern Virginia in search of Amazon Web Services data centers — and explores the ge... Read on The AtlanticJanuary 2016 -
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Data & SocietyIn this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly invisible to customers: third-party (3P) sellers. Read moreJanuary 2023 -
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Data & SocietyA conversation hosted by Data & Society’s Labor Futures initiative about the hidden relational dynamics that shape how we shop today. Read moreOctober 2022 -
Online Databite—On October 27, 2022 join us for “Power and Retail at the Digital Doorstep,” a conversation about the hidden relational dynamics that shape how we shop today. Read moreOctober 2022
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Data & SocietyThe doorstep has emerged as the new physical locale of consumption — the threshold at which purchased products become personal property. In this transformation, the porch has become a contested space: it is at once private prop... Read moreOctober 2022