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Data & SocietyIn this blog post, D&S fellow Mimi Onuoha discusses the motivations of those who contribute to crowdsourced journalism as a part of the forthcoming report "Guide to Crowdsourcing". Read on Data & SocietyOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyHow might we use game theory, data, and technology to advance social justice? Callisto is an online sexual assault reporting system that allows college students to (1) find clear information about about their reporting options,... Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyFrancine Berman (@FranBerman) presents Dude, where’s my data? – Building a sustainable data ecosystem. All the cool stuff in the digital world presupposes that the data will be there when you need it, but will it? Without da... Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyJohn discusses the data for climate ecosystem within the context of his experience working at the intersection of informal digital communities and formal humanitarian institutions. Read moreOctober 2015 -
CRIND&S fellow Mark Latonero and D&S researcher Monica Bulger participated in a joint statement prepared by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP) Prof. Sonia Livingstone, Coordinator of EU Kids Online, Data &am... Read on CRINOctober 2015
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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 -
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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 -
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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