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Data & SocietyKeywords of the Datafied State is a collection of essays on concepts that are of central significance to understanding the relationship between government and technology, and how it differs across geographies. Read moreApril 2024 -
Press Coverage
Rest of WorldOur new report “The Formalization of Social Precarities” explains “how gig work fits into — and is exacerbated by — existing social issues,” and how cultures' norms around race and caste shape the parameters of work. Read on Rest of WorldApril 2024 -
Explainer
Data & SocietyIn Challenging Worker Datafication, D&S Labor Futures Researcher Alexandra Mateescu provides an introduction to different recent approaches to worker data, and explores ongoing questions, critiques, and possibilities. Read moreNovember 2023 -
Primer
Data & SocietyWellness Capitalism: Employee Health, the Benefits Maze, and Worker Control explores how employee wellness has been promoted in the US through public policies and government support, and how this has led to a rapidly expanding, data-collecting industry. Read moreJune 2023 -
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Data & SocietyThis report by Health & Data researchers Livia Garofalo, Amanda Lenhart, Ireti Akinrinade and Joan Mukogosi explores how essential workers reacted to, and in some cases worked around, public health surveillance in their workplaces, set up in response to COVID-19. Read moreFebruary 2023 -
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Data & SocietyIn this report, Moira Weigel tells the story of a group of hidden intermediaries who have played key roles in making Amazon one of the most powerful corporations in the world, while remaining mostly invisible to customers: third-party (3P) sellers. Read moreJanuary 2023 -
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PointsThe rise of data-centric technologies is an opportunity for the labor and racial justice movements to build new bridges. Read on PointsJanuary 2023 -
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Data & SocietyA conversation hosted by Data & Society’s Labor Futures initiative about the hidden relational dynamics that shape how we shop today. Read moreOctober 2022 -
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Data & SocietyThe doorstep has emerged as the new physical locale of consumption — the threshold at which purchased products become personal property. In this transformation, the porch has become a contested space: it is at once private prop... Read moreOctober 2022 -
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Data & SocietyOn Thursday, April 14th, 2022, Dr. Julia Ticona discussed her new book Left to Our Own Devices at Data & Society’s Book Forum Series with Labor Futures Program Director Aiha Nguyen and Director of Research Jenna Burrell. Read moreApril 2022