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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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Journal of Technology ScienceAbstract For decades, The Princeton Review has prepared students for a battery of standardized tests for a price. In some cases, that price varies by ZIP code (or United States postal codes). The Princeton Review's website r... Read on Journal of Technology ScienceSeptember 2015 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Taylor & Francis OnlineD&S researcher Monica Bulger, Jonathan Bright, and Cristóbal Cobo investigate why some Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) users organize face-to-face meetings, exploring the hypothesis that meetup invites would reflect stude... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineJuly 2015 -
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Marron Institute of Urban PlanningD&S fellow Anthony Townsend coauthored an NYU Marron Institute working paper. Abstract: The 21st century is being shaped by two global trends: the near-total urbanization of the world’s population, and the seamless integra... Read on Marron Institute of Urban PlanningJuly 2015 -
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arXiv.orgD&S fellow Sorelle Friedler and her research colleagues investigate the ways that algorithms make decisions in all aspects of our lives and whether or not we can determine if these algorithms are biased, involve illegal dis... Read on arXiv.orgJuly 2015 -
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Star City GroupWe are living in the age of cities. It is an urgent time, and an uncertain one. Never before have human beings built so much with such haste. Yet we understand so little about how our urban world grows — and sometimes — decline... Read on Star City GroupJuly 2015