How does political misinformation—and outright lies—get amplified on social media and tech platforms? ProPublica editor and reporter Ryan McCarthy and Data & Society Senior Research Analyst Cristina López G. have looked into dynamics of amplification, inconsistent enforcement of community standards, and the democratic pitfalls of hyper-targeting audiences in their reporting and research. On Tuesday, October […]

Join Data & Society, Catalyst, and Rede Mocambos for this special Global Launch event to honor the recent journal release edited by Sareeta Amrute and Luis Felipe R. Murillo: Computing in/from the South: A Special Section of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Featured researchers, artists, and participants will share the process behind their findings, and come […]

On Tuesday, December 8 from 3 – 4 p.m. ET,  join us for a conversation with Scientist and Researcher David Robinson and Data & Society Senior Researcher Alex Rosenblat on algorithmic governance. Algorithms make a wide range of morally important decisions, and many people now argue that members of the public should be more directly […]

Join Data & Society and Stanford PACS for a special book launch. One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over—and upending—nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology […]

To participate in this Network Talk, please write to [email protected].  On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 3 p.m. ET, please join authors Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor in conversation with Data & Society Director of Research, Sareeta Amrute, on their new book, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020), […]

At social media and gaming companies, the user is the constant focus—at least in theory. How to get them to use this platform more? To stay longer? To come back tomorrow? Attention and resources are poured into answering these questions throughout the industry. That same attention and those same resources are not, however, put toward […]

Over the past year, Covid-19 has exacerbated suffering across every section of life. Harassment and hostility, work pressure, and the strain of a pandemic, along with trauma from ongoing racism, sexism, and other discrimination, have taken a toll on our mental health. Until now, little research has been done on the impact of Covid-19 on […]

On Wednesday, June 9 at 12 p.m. ET, Data & Society AI on the Ground Program Director Jacob Metcalf will host a conversation with experts on the emerging regulations in the EU, US, and Canada, and ask how impact assessment practices can effectively account for the harms caused by algorithmic systems. Algorithmic impact assessments have […]