D&S fellow Karen Levy was quoted in this piece detailing the implications of fertility tracking devices. “Scoring and quantifying aspects of sexual health has the potential to be empowering, by giving people data to act on... Read on The Guardian

D&S research analyst Robyn Caplan was quoted in this NYT piece examining Facebook's role in the news industry. “This is a funny kind of transparency,” said Robyn Caplan, an analyst at the research group Data & Societ... Read on New York Times

D&S fellow Martha Poon was quoted in this Slate piece discussing credit scores. Two decades ago, barely anyone outside the lending industry had even heard of a credit score. How did we come to define ourselves by this myst... Read on Slate

D&S researchers Robyn Caplan and Bonnie Tijerina were quoted in this Thrillist piece discussing Facebook's capability in influencing elections. "There's a lack of training to really question 'what are the implications of w... Read on Thrillist

Seems like yesterday that we were in the thick of bot week on Data & Society’s Points…* Time flies when you're staving off/embracing the robot apocalypse. Since wrapping up our series on bots, we've collected ten new pieces ... Read more

Three more! Data & Society is excited to announce that, starting in September, a trio of postdocs will be joining the incoming class of fellows and practitioners-in-residence. They will pursue individual projects under the supe... Read more

D&S Researcher Alex Rosenblat takes a look at the fallout after the Uber's recent political showdown with the Austin City Council and explores several ways in which the interests of the platform and the interests of those u... Read on Motherboard

D&S founder danah boyd was quoted in this piece on Medium that analyzes Facebook's trending news list. The second, more interesting complaint, as Stanley puts it, isn’t about legal obligation, but about perception: Faceboo... Read on Medium

Data & Society is pleased to announce its third (!) class of fellows and practitioners-in-residence [and postdocs][and Ford-Mozilla Open Web fellow]. This diverse group joins us in September. They will pursue individual project... Read more

In February Data & Society held the Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms? workshop to drill into the assumptions, values, and tensions at the core of growing concerns about the control and shaping of the publi... Read more