Yeshimabeit Milner, founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives presents "Abolish Big Data." Read more

Writer Anna Wiener discusses her debut book, Uncanny Valley, and her experiences navigating the new digital economy.     Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener’s mem... Read more

Data are currency. Data provide the fuel for decision-making and profit-making. Data offer evidence for enhancing health services, infrastructure, and zoning, and for addressing environmental concerns. But the collection and us... Read more

Joe Mulhall, senior researcher at European anti-extremism NGO HOPE not hate, explores how the international far right is leveraging the current climate crisis. Mulhall focuses specifically on networked disinformation and... Read more

NYU Professor Charlton McIlwain shares African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United State... Read more

Ruha Benjamin presents Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin discusses the relationship between machine bias and systemic racism, analyzing specific cases of “discr... Read more

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

Data & Society Fellow Jasmine McNealy discusses “community as technology” and how social infrastructure steps in where government and civil society fail. Specifically, her research explores how failures of technology promot... Read more

Cynthia Conti-Cook’s research at Data & Society focuses on how data tools and technology are drastically changing the criminal justice system in America. Her talk explores police misconduct data and the “data gap” that has ... Read more

Why should you care about the restaurant industry? Data & Society Fellow Veronica Avila explores the consequences of this “alarmingly low-wage industry," its roots in slavery and servitude, and how some employers are using ... Read more