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  • Press Coverage
    The Guardian
    D&S founder danah boyd's discussion of collapsed contexts was cited in the Guardian in Anna Lauren Hoffmann's piece on how users are sharing less data on Facebook. "danah boyd and others used the idea of “collapsed context... Read on The Guardian
    April 2016
  • Press Coverage
    The Guardian
    D&S Researcher Amanda Lenhart's was interviewed in this piece by the Guardian that ties online harassment to social campaigns in the Victorian era to govern safe food. “Media coverage focuses on things that people pay atte... Read on The Guardian
    April 2016
  • Press Coverage
    Fusion
    D&S Affiliate Desmond Patton was interviewed in Fusion's article about online gang violence. “People compared online gang violence to cyberbullying, but it felt different,” [Patton] told [Fusion]. “If [a gang member] makes... Read on Fusion
    April 2016
  • Press Coverage
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    D&S Fellow Surya Mattu's collaboration with artist Tega Brain, Unfit Bits, was discussed in this piece by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). "For one, it seems that privacy is set to become this luxury, where i... Read on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    April 2016
  • Press Coverage
    Medium
    D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington's internet infrastructure field guide was linked to in this Medium piece discussing Wi-Fi service in New York City's subways. These relationships—which represent hundreds of millio... Read on Medium
    March 2016
  • Press Coverage
    James Acklin
    D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington was profiled in this piece by James Acklin, who participated in her workshop on the Architectural History of Computation. ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables ... Read on James Acklin
    March 2016
  • Press Coverage
    New York Times
    D&S affiliates Ifeoma Ajunwa and Kate Crawford with Jason Schultz had their work, Limitless Worker Surveillance, linked to in this New York Times article discussing health data and privacy. To address this problem, a gro... Read on New York Times
    March 2016
  • Press Coverage
    Jacobin
    D&S researcher Alex Rosenblat and Luke Stark's work in the sharing economy was discussed in Jacobin Magazine. "For example, Uber has successfully created the impression that their surge-pricing policies are “simply Economi... Read on Jacobin
    March 2016
  • Press Coverage
    The Guardian
    D&S fellow Karen Levy discusses apps that monitor fertility in this piece by the Guardian. “People trying to get pregnant are a very marketable segment,” Karen Levy, a professor at Cornell University who focuses on monitor... Read on The Guardian
    March 2016
  • Press Coverage
    Future of Life Institute
    D&S fellow Madeleine Clare Elish was quoted in a Future of Life Institute piece discussing public fear of AI. “When the media focuses on AI in this way, it appears as if the technology develops on its own when, in fact, it... Read on Future of Life Institute
    March 2016