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This anthology was curated from stories of living with data and AI in/from the majority world, narrated at a storytelling workshop in October 2021 organized by Data & Society Research Institute. 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

Scholars Dan Bouk, Kevin Ackermann, and danah boyd join forces on a thought-provoking resource that begins to explore the power of official numbers and public data. In A Primer on Powerful Numbers: Selected Readings in the Social Study of Public Data and Official Numbers, the authors touch on the power and authority that public numbers have in societies.  Read more

“We need to be mindful of the fact that while we’ve entered this space where everything is become commodified, that includes Black feminists creating themselves as brands and products, and that there is a limit to how far we ca... Read on Data & Society

  “Distance is not the opposite of presence. Absence is.”    How do professional providers navigate legal and ethical issues embedded in distanced intimacy? Which considerations should mental health care platform... Read more

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Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor discuss their new book, "Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition." Read more