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Data & SocietyAn academic workshop on how institutions, individuals, and infrastructures mediate platform power. Read moreJanuary 2021 -
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Data & SocietyOctober 2020 -
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Data & SocietyWendy Liu and Meredith Whittaker discuss how the COVID-19 shutdown is impacting workers and organizing in the technology industry. Read moreApril 2020 -
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Data & SocietyA video of Chancey Fleet and Taeyoon Choi's virtual conversation about network building and activism opportunities. Read moreApril 2020 -
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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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Data & SocietyResearchers who investigate sensitive topics may face online harassment, social shaming, or other networked forms of abuse. In addition to potential impacts on the researcher’s reputation and mental health, fear of harassment m... Read moreOctober 2016 -
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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 -
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Data & SocietyThese case studies explore situations in which algorithmic media is shaping the public sphere, and complement the contemporary issues primer, "Mediation, Automation, and Power," for the "Algorithms and Publics" project. Read moreMay 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer investigates the growing use of social media as a law enforcement tool for surveillance, as well as how social media surveillance affects First and Fourth Amendment rights. Read moreOctober 2015