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Social Media + SocietyAbstract: In this essay, we reconstruct a keyword for communication—affordance. Affordance, adopted from ecological psychology, is now widely used in technology studies, yet the term lacks a clear definition. This is especially... Read on Social Media + SocietySeptember 2015 -
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The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer on the use of virtual-reality in education, and Google's virtual field trip system for schools, Expeditions. The idea of virtual field trips is not new. Some teachers have for years used Microsoft... Read on The New York TimesSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyDr. William B. Jordan (@npalive) presents My Doctor Would Never Do That: Large databases of physician behavior have been made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other sources to reveal pr... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
Longform
The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer details Clever, a software service — free for schools — that enables schools to send student information to web and mobile apps at the click of a button. Clever is clearly benefiting from the incr... Read on The New York TimesSeptember 2015 -
Longform
Vice“Just as the software and hardware of the internet has been militarized by the imperatives of a mostly secret 'cyberwar,' so too are online social spaces being weaponized in new and mostly hidden ways.” D&S researcher Tim Hw... Read on ViceSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn 2012 New York launched one of the most ambitious education reform policy agendas in the country fueled by $700M in Race to the Top funding. New technology, online collaboration, and data driven instruction were at the center... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
Longform
The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer explores how the sharing economy, and sites like TeachersPayTeachers.com, are benefitting teachers willing to share the lessons they have created. At a time when many politicians, technology execu... Read on The New York TimesSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyArvind Narayanan is a computer scientist at Princeton. He advised a Master's thesis, described in Section 2, that utilized a similar methodology to the Encore project. Bendert Zevenbergen is a Ph.D candidate and researcher at t... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyEarly research on learning in online ecologies like fanfiction and gaming communities pointed to the power of open networks characterized by rich social practices to support learning, but at the same time showed a clear lack of... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Pacific StandardD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat published an essay on remote management in Pacific Standard’s The Future of Work and Workers series: Rather than having managers who listen to them and deliver feedback, drivers are managed th... Read on Pacific StandardSeptember 2015