In this talk co-presented by Data & Society and Brooklyn Public Library, historian Jill Lepore discusses her new book "If Then" in conversation with danah boyd, founder and president of Data & Society. Read more

Learn about the work of our 2019-2020 Fellows over this past year. Read more

NYU Professor Charlton McIlwain shares African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United State... Read more

Data & Society Fellow Jasmine McNealy discusses “community as technology” and how social infrastructure steps in where government and civil society fail. Specifically, her research explores how failures of technology promot... Read more

Cynthia Conti-Cook’s research at Data & Society focuses on how data tools and technology are drastically changing the criminal justice system in America. Her talk explores police misconduct data and the “data gap” that has ... Read more

How are data technologies affecting Chinese society and politics—and how is Chinese tech affecting the rest of the world? This panel features Fei Liu and Jing Tsu in conversation with Julian Gewirtz, co-editor of Logic Magazine... Read more

This talk by Shoshana Zuboff is based on her latest book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.     Surveillance capitalism arrived on the scene wi... Read more

Data & Society Fellow Darakhshan Mir discusses the vast amounts of data generated by contemporary communities and the ensuing struggle between privacy and utility. There is often an assumption, within computer science, t... Read more

Mari Bastashevski delves into the concepts of fear, anxiety, and paranoia and how these feelings shape our relationship with data-driven technologies. Bastashevski’s research and art practice share overlapping themes dealing wi... Read more

Matthew Jones speaks about key illiteracies surrounding metadata, the hacking of our court system, and the possibility of ethics at scale.     He touches upon the variations in definitions of key terminol... Read more