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Big Data & SocietyHow do algorithms & data-driven tech induce similarity across an industry? Data & Society Researcher Robyn Caplan and Founder & President danah boyd trace Facebook's impact on news media organizations and journalist... Read on Big Data & SocietyFebruary 2018 -
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Columbia Law ReviewRyan Calo and D&S researcher Alex Rosenblat write this analysis of the newly termed 'taking economy' of Uber. Sharing economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb facilitate trusted transactions between strangers on digital platf... Read on Columbia Law ReviewMarch 2017 -
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International Journal of CommunicationD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat and Luke Stark published a case study of Uber drivers and highlight the information and power asymmetries produced by the Uber application. Abstract is below. Uber manages a large, disaggregat... Read on International Journal of CommunicationJuly 2016 -
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Taylor & Francis OnlineD&S advisor Tarleton Gillespie writes "Algorithmically recognizable: Santorum’s Google problem, and Google’s Santorum problem". Abstract is below: Because information algorithms make judgments that can have powerful conseq... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineJuly 2016 -
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Sage Journals"Social media platforms don’t just guide, distort, and facilitate social activity, they also delete some of it. They don’t just link users together, they also suspend them. They don’t just circulate our images and posts, they a... Read on Sage JournalsMay 2015 -
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Sage Journals‘@AP: Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured’. So read a tweet sent from a hacked Associated Press Twitter account @AP, which affected financial markets, wiping out $136.5 billion of the Standar... Read on Sage JournalsMay 2015