Events at: Data & Society

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…discussing issues that may arise when civil society, companies or governments call upon computer scientists in the pursuit of regulation by design.

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Sean Gorman speaks about: Our Algorithmic Future: Can Community Driven Incentives Create Greater Transparency?

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Sarah Brayne speaks about: Stratified Surveillance: Policing in the Age of Big Data…

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Jeffrey Lane discusses the Prosecutorial Affordances of Social Media…

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Judith Donath discusses fashion as a signal of status in an information-centric society.

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David Schleifer will discuss how Americans do and do not use price data in health care according to new survey research.

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A conversation among scholars, technologists, and stakeholders working across different arenas relevant to the emergence of intelligent systems…

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John Loser, VP of Data at Oscar, on “Insurance in the Age of Big Data”…

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Ben Vershbow and Shana Kimball on Data Landscapes of the New York Public Library…

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In this conversational provocation, Nick Seaver will argue that we can usefully think of recommendation algorithms as a kind of trap, engineered to captivate users.