Robyn Caplan participates in a panel on automated content moderation. Read on Council on Foreign Relations

On Friday, June 8, the second-annual Future Perfect gathering at Data & Society brought together individuals from a variety of world-building disciplines—from art and fiction to architecture and science—to explore the uses,... Read more

Robyn Caplan delivers the keynote address at the Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference. Read on Electronic Resources & Libraries

Jonathan Mayer presents: Regulating Security and Privacy. Regulatory agencies—especially the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission—have risen to prominence on technology security and privacy issu... Read more

Shiri Azenkot (@shiriazenkot) presents Enhancing Ability: A Discussion of Recent Work on Improving Access to Information for People with Vision Disabilities. In this talk, Azenkot discusses several projects that show how we ... Read more

On September 9, 2015, the Data & Society Research Institute hosted Platformation, a one-day summit that brought together a diverse group of stakeholders for a multi-disciplinary discussion on platform-based labor. Participa... Read more

Science fiction author Scott Westerfeld (Uglies series, Leviathan series) leads the discussion at this Databite, examining the rise of dystopia as a dominant genre in young adult novels. He focuses in on the themes of surveilla... Read more

John Crowley (@jcrowley) on data for climate action: John discusses the data for climate ecosystem within the context of his experience working at the intersection of informal digital communities and formal humanitarian inst... Read more

On May 19, 2015 a group of about 20 individuals gathered at New America in Washington, DC for a discussion co-hosted by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Data & Society Research Institute, Upturn, and New... Read more

John Loser, VP of Data at Oscar, on Insurance in the Age of Big Data: "Insurance, at its core, is about sharing risk. From the mutual aid societies of the ancient world through the advent of the modern insurance contract in ... Read more