D&S affiliate Natasha Singer and Steve Lohr discuss the role of data in the 2016 election. Virtually all the major vote forecasters, including Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight site, the New York Times' Upshot and the Princeto... Read on Tampa Bay Times

D&S affiliate Kate Crawford, with Ryan Calo, wrote this piece discussing risks in AI. Artificial intelligence presents a cultural shift as much as a technical one. This is similar to technological inflection points of the ... Read on Nature

D&S fellow Zara Rahman reports that the Bangladeshi government developed "smart" national ID cards. But with this much personal information being collected on every single citizen, especially personal data that cannot be c... Read on The Guardian

D&S artist-in-residence Heather Dewey-Hagborg co-wrote a piece discussing the creation of #KissMyArs A painstaking review of the statistics confirmed that more than 90% of winners self-identified as male. Although fewer wo... Read on The Guardian

D&S affiliate Solon Barocas and D&S fellow Karen Levy examine a concept called refractive surveillance, which is when surveillance of one group impacts another. Debates about consumer privacy have largely missed the fa... Read on Harvard Business Review

D&S founder danah boyd wrote a critical piece entitled 'Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance' questioning whether social science as an academic field is headed in the right direction. When we believe that we have a monopol... Read on The Chronicle of Higher Education

D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman defends usage of video recording of police officers. If video doesn't lead to the indictment of officers who shoot civilians, are we wrong to expect justice from sousveillance? The police who sh... Read on MIT Technology Review

D&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish discusses the complexities of error in automated systems. Elish argues that the human role in automated systems has become 'the weak link, rather than the point of stability'. We need t... Read on Slate

D&S fellow Mark Latonero considers recent attempts by policymakers, big tech companies, and advocates to address the deepening refugee and migrant crisis and, in particular, the educational needs of displaced children throu... Read on Foreign Affairs

D&S Researcher Robyn Caplan considers whether Facebook is saving journalism or ruining it: The question of whether Facebook is saving or ruining journalism is not relevant here because, like it or not, Facebook is a media ... Read on The New York Times