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KQEDA short video explainer on YouTube's algorithm, created in partnership with PBS's KQED Above the Noise series. Read on KQEDJune 2019 -
event
Council on Foreign RelationsRobyn Caplan participates in a panel on automated content moderation. Read on Council on Foreign RelationsNovember 2018 -
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Data & SocietyNew report by Robyn Caplan illustrates the organizational contexts of three types of content moderation strategies by drawing from interviews with 10 major digital platforms. Read moreNovember 2018 -
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Data & SocietyNew Data & Society ethnographic study illuminates conservative methods of fact-checking media; warns that search engines may facilitate disinformation Read moreMay 2018 -
Resource
Data & SocietyThis primer explores different types of data voids and how they can be exploited by those with ideological, economic, or political agendas. Read moreMay 2018 -
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BackchannelD&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on BackchannelMarch 2017 -
Resource
Data & SocietyThis primer articulates emerging concerns and tensions coming to the fore as social media platforms overtake traditional media forms, becoming the main way that news and information of cultural, economic, social and political significance is being produced and disseminated. Read moreMay 2016 -
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Data & SocietyIn this background primer, D&S Research Analyst Laura Reed and D&S Founder danah boyd situate the current debate around the role of technology in the public sphere within a historical context. Read moreMay 2016 -
op-ed
SlateD&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and the likely future sophistication of automated politics and potential impacts on the public sphere in the era of social medi... Read on SlateMarch 2016