Event Category: Data & Society

D&S will host a workshop on the intersection of technology and media manipulation. To participate, apply by February 15.

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In a moment when the future increasingly feels like a foregone conclusion, Future Perfect brings actors from a variety of world-building disciplines (from art and fiction, to law and science) together to explore the uses, abuses, and paradoxes of speculative futures. Curated by Data & Society artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington, Future Perfect is an experimental one-day, […]

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All the Ways You Can’t Sue Facebook | A Brown Bag Lunch with Ingrid Burrington and Surya Mattu Join INFRA Lead Ingrid Burrington & Affiliate Surya Mattu for a conversation of recent work and research-in-progress (currently happening as part of their residency at Eyebeam) exploring all the ways you can’t sue Facebook and other creative interventions in understanding or rethinking […]

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Join us for the launch party of the new book Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work by Data & Society Researcher Alex Rosenblat. Uberland chronicles over 5,000 miles logged with drivers in more than 25 cities in the United States and Canada over the span of four years. Rosenblat, an award-winning technology […]

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Please join us for Data & Society’s first Welcome Week, a series of events on September 10-11, 2019 that will serve as an introduction to our organization, community, and work. You’ll learn how our independent nonprofit research institute operates to advance public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation. Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA, […]

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Join us on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 6 p.m. ET for this Virtual Network Power Hour with Equality Labs Founder Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Data & Society Operations Associate Irene Chung to share best digital security practices during this *very online* time. How are you activating your networks and staying connected? How can we continue […]

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We’re teaming up with NEW INC for a virtual discussion about how creative practices evolve during precarious times. NEW INC members will give lightning talks about their projects at NEW INC and attendees will be invited to join the artists in a discussion about work, precarity, and art-making. Featuring members: Foreign Objects, Heidi Boisvert, Mark […]

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Cast in Tech Townhall flyer - August 22, 2020

Join Equality Labs, Harvard Center for South Asian Studies, and Data & Society for a townhall on #CasteInTech. Speakers will explore the many dimensions of caste discrimination in tech—from recruitment, hiring, workplace dynamics, to sexual harassment and limiting human resource policies. Panelists will discuss ways workers are addressing casteist workplaces, and pushing forward the movement […]

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Tim Hwang and Moira Weigel headshots stacked

On Thursday, October 15, 2020 from 4-5 p.m. ET, Data & Society Sociotechnical Security Researcher Moira Weigel hosts author Tim Hwang to discuss the way big tech financializes attention. Weigel and Hwang will explore how the false promises of adtech is just one example of tech-solutionism’s many fictions. Drawing on Tim Hwang’s new book, Subprime […]

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stacked headshots of Michele Gilman and Meredith Broussard with a blue gradient overlay

On Friday, October 16 from 2-3 p.m. ET, join Michele Gilman for a conversation with Professor Meredith Broussard on enhancing the digital literacy of poverty lawyers to better advocate for social justice and the low-income communities they serve. Automated decision-making systems make decisions about our lives, and those with low socioeconomic status often bear the […]