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cholars Dan Bouk, Kevin Ackermann, and danah boyd join forces on a thought-provoking resource that begins to explore the power of official numbers and public data. In A Primer on Powerful Numbers: Selected Readings in the Social Study of Public Data and Official Numbers, the authors touch on the power and authority that public numbers have in societies.  Read more

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Sareeta Amrute and Emiliano Treré discuss the relationship between data and racial capitalism. Read more

Mimi Onuoha and Lam Thuy Vo consider what is lost when human life becomes translated into data. Read more

How An Automated Algorithm Constrained Congress for a Century Read more

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Michele Gilman and Meredith Broussard on everything poverty lawyers need to know about tech, law, and social justice. Read more

Sasha Costanza-Chock re-imagines how design led by marginalized communities can become a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, & support ecological survival. Read more

Anthropologist Anita Say Chan, interviewed by Data & Society Events Producer Rigoberto Lara Guzmán & Communications Associate Natalie Kerby. Read on Points