Listen to ProPublica's Ryan McCarthy discuss election misinformation with Data & Society Research Analyst Cristina Lopez. G. Read more

Tim Hwang and Moira Weigel discuss the way that big tech financializes attention. Read more

Angèle Christin and Joseph Torres analyze racial divisions in media-making and its interplay with data-centric technologies. Read more

The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy Read on Social Media + Society

Whiteness as the default existence - enforced by explicit and implicit values, norms, and practices in the newsroom - has and will continue to thwart any meaningful efforts to make the country's newsrooms reflect the communities they claim to serve. Read on Poynter

Researcher Robyn Caplan explains why COVID-19 has created a problem of content mediation, rather than moderation, on social media platforms. Read on Brookings Institute

"Data Voids" demonstrates how manipulators expose people to problematic content by exploiting search-engine results. Read more

A short video explainer on YouTube's algorithm, created in partnership with PBS's KQED Above the Noise series. Read on KQED

A transcript of danah boyd's talk at the Digital Public Library of America conference. Read on Points

On February 23, 2019, danah boyd gave a talk at the Knight Media Forum; this text is the written version of her talk. Read on Points