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Data & SocietyData & Society Researcher Alexandra Mateescu's latest report outlines the drawbacks of Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), highlighting the need to fundamentally reconsider what is valued & prioritized in the design of care technologies & infrastructure. Read moreNovember 2021 -
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Data & SocietyThe Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People Read moreMay 2021 -
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Data & Society"Data Voids" demonstrates how manipulators expose people to problematic content by exploiting search-engine results. Read moreOctober 2019 -
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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 & SocietyData Craft analyzes how bad actors manipulate metadata to create effective disinformation campaigns and provides tips for researchers and technology companies trying to spot this “data craft.” Read moreNovember 2018 -
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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 -
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Data & Society"Alternative Influence" by Rebecca Lewis identifies an alternative media system on YouTube that adopts the techniques of brand influencers to build audiences and “sell” them political ideology. Read moreSeptember 2018 -
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Data & SocietyDrawn from the experiences of U.S. ridehail, care, and cleaning platform workers, new Data & Society report demonstrates how technology reshapes the future of labor. Read moreJune 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