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Data & SocietyAmanda Lenhart, Charlotte Willner, and Aden Van Noppen discuss designing healthy tech for young people. Read moreMay 2021 -
blog post
PointsSocial media companies must prioritize and design for teens. Read on PointsSeptember 2020 -
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podcast
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Data & SocietyAlexander Macgillivray and Nicole Wong discuss the role of Trust and Safety, and make suggestions as regulation, policy, and public awareness evolve. Read moreJuly 2020 -
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Data & SocietyAndré Brock discusses his book Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures with Data & Society’s Director of Research Sareeta Amrute. Read moreMay 2020 -
report
Data & SocietyWeaponizing the Digital Influence Machine: The Political Perils of Online Ad Tech identifies the technologies, conditions, and tactics that enable today’s digital advertising infrastructure to be weaponized by political and anti-democratic actors. Read moreOctober 2018 -
blog post
PointsFor Data & Society Points, Visiting Scholar Anne Washington breaks down the numbers behind Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. "How did the choices made by only 270,000 Facebook users affect millions of people? How is it p... Read on PointsApril 2018 -
op-ed
MIT Technology ReviewIn the wake of Cambridge Analytica, Data & Society Researcher Jacob Metcalf argues that the real risk is the behavioral models that have been developed from Facebook user's data. "But focusing solely on the purloined data ... Read on MIT Technology ReviewApril 2018 -
Academic Article
Feminist Media StudiesAlice Marwick and Robyn Caplan identify the networked elements of online harassment. Read on Feminist Media StudiesMarch 2018 -
op-ed
SlateData & Society Researcher Jacob Metcalf co-authored an op-ed in Slate discussing how giving researchers more access to Facebook users' data could prevent unethical data mining. "This case raises numerous complicated ethica... Read on SlateMarch 2018 -
Longform
Harvard Business ReviewD&S researcher Mark Latonero provides an overview of the role of large tech companies in refugee crises. While the 40-page brief is filled with arguments in support of immigration, it hardly speaks about refugees, except t... Read on Harvard Business ReviewMay 2017