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blog post
Socializing FinancePointing to an essay on high-frequency trading by Donald Mackenzie, D&S fellow Martha Poon comments on the tension between technologies accommodating "a variety of social visions" and available choices being constrained by ... Read on Socializing FinanceSeptember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyKath Albury on Digital sexual citizenship: negotiating the politics of representation and risk on geo-locative hook-up apps. Read moreSeptember 2014 -
Academic Article
Social PoliticsWithin some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and c... Read on Social PoliticsSeptember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyData & Society friend Kati London discusses designing entertainment for civic engagement; she references previous work/approaches and loves to hear what others are working on with regards to hypotheses, outcomes, etc. Read moreSeptember 2014 -
blog post
MediumNude pictures of celebrities stolen from their own iCloud accounts. Facebook experimenting with the emotions in their users’ feeds. Google reading Gmail before their users do. Fitness trackers without privacy policies, vulnerab... Read on MediumSeptember 2014 -
event
Data & SocietyData scientist Claudia Perlich, who just finished running the largest KDD conference to date, engages the room on the topic of online advertising. Read moreSeptember 2014 -
blog post
MediumFairness is one of those values that Americans love to espouse. It’s just as beloved in technical circles, where it’s often introduced as one of the things that “neutral” computers do best. We collectively perceive ourselves an... Read on MediumSeptember 2014 -
op-ed
TIMEIn this op-ed, Data & Society advisor Janet Vertesi highlights a systemic tension in our current understanding of data privacy: "We are all supposed to be solely responsible for our personal information, but at the same tim... Read on TIMESeptember 2014 -
event
Data & SocietyData & Society advisor Ethan Zuckerman shares ideas he’s developing around civic engagement and effectiveness — and measuring effectiveness. Read moreAugust 2014 -
Longform
The AtlanticIn this essay, Data & Society advisor Ethan Zuckerman explains his belief that the "fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online cont... Read on The AtlanticAugust 2014