In mapping the social life of algorithmic harms, this workshop challenged the notion that algorithms are merely technical problems in need of technical solutions. Read more

This conversation centers care as both the means and an end to providing safe abortions, connecting activists, and understanding how the "digital" can facilitate and impede reproductive liberation. ____________ Alejándose de los debates sobre la privacidad digital y protección de datos para personas que quieren abortar, este evento pone en el centro al cuidado como medio y objetivo para garantizar el aborto seguro, conectando a activistas y discutiendo sobre cómo lo digital puede facilitar (u obstacular) la liberación reproductiva. Read more

A conversation hosted by Data & Society’s Labor Futures initiative about the hidden relational dynamics that shape how we shop today. Read more

The outcome of a deep collaboration between Sareeta Amrute, Ranjit Singh, and Rigoberto Lara Guzmán (and informed by a range of feminists, Indigenous thinkers, anti-caste scholars, and Afro-futurists), A Primer on AI in/from th... Read more

“We need to meet datasets at their doorsteps.” —Dan Bouk In his new book Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them, data historian and D&S affiliate Dan Bouk examines the 1940 US census, u... Read more

In this conversation, 2021 – 2022 Fellows Chaz Arnett, Tamara K. Nopper, and Murali Shanmugavelan, and Postdoctoral Researcher Tiara Roxanne reflect on their experience at Data & Society during the second year of a global pandemic with Principal Researcher and Fellowship Director Sareeta Amrute. Read more

“The brand new fiber optic tables all over the country are actually laid down along the lines of old railroad tracks.... something so new and shiny and digital is using the infrastructure from something really old. That gave me... Read more

"Race, Surveillance, Resistance" is the third talk in our three-part Databite series, Conversations on The Datafied State, that begins to explore governments use of tech and the transformation of government through its use. Read more

Author Jessie Daniels in discussion with Mutale Nkonde and Sareeta Amrute about her new book "Nice White Ladies: the Truth About White Supremacy, Our Role In It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It" at Data & Society’s Network Book Forum. Read more

"The Automated State" is the second talk in our three-part Databite series, Conversations on The Datafied State, that begins to explore governments use of tech and the transformation of government through its use. Read more