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Longform
Weekly Wonk New AmericaIn this piece for Weekly Wonk, New America's digital magazine, D&S advisor Charlton McIlwain explores the provenance and prospects of the contemporary civil rights "movement network": What’s new about the present movement ... Read on Weekly Wonk New AmericaAugust 2015 -
Academic Article
Data & SocietyHow the Internet is Shaping Social Change, and Social Change is Shaping the Internet Summary As activism for police accountability, fair wages, just immigration, and more takes center stage — social justice movements of the... Read moreAugust 2015 -
op-ed
The AtlanticD&S fellow Tim Hwang distinguishes between offline boycotts and online refusals to link in the context of the advertising-driven Internet. What moral principles and norms are implicated when individuals choose not to link o... Read on The AtlanticAugust 2015 -
Academic Article
InterfaceD&S advisor Janet Vertesi essays her presentation from Theorizing the Web 2014: The past five years have seen the rise and expansion of a new infrastructural layer to the Internet. Inspired by the unprecedented success of ... Read on InterfaceAugust 2015 -
blog post
Ethical ResolveIn this blogpost for Ethical Resolve, researcher Jacob Metcalf discusses A/B testing and research ethics and argues that: ...data scientists need to earn the social trust that is the foundation of ethical research in any field... Read on Ethical ResolveAugust 2015 -
Longform
Pacific StandardD&S fellow Karen Levy published an essay on measurement in Pacific Standard's The Future of Work and Workers series: As data analytics and monitoring technologies come to be used in more and more workplaces, we must be att... Read on Pacific StandardAugust 2015 -
Academic Article
GeoJournalD&S Affiliate Kate Crawford writes about the use of social media platforms and mobile phone data to mine and produce accounts of how people are responding in the aftermath of crisis events. She considers the limitations of ... Read on GeoJournalAugust 2015 -
video
Data & SocietyThe public interest concept has traditionally been a central, multi-faceted, and highly contested guiding principle in the governance of media platforms that have played a significant role in the dissemination of news and infor... Read moreJuly 2015 -
Academic Article
Taylor & Francis OnlineIn this Journal of Children and Media article, D&S researcher Monica Bulger seeks to address the dynamics of information evaluation among youth, investigating the attitudes of youth (aged 11–18) toward information credibili... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineJuly 2015 -
op-ed
Motherboard"Uber’s access to real-time information about where passengers and drivers are has helped make it one of the most efficient and useful apps produced by Silicon Valley in recent years. But if you open the app assuming you’ll get... Read on MotherboardJuly 2015