In this Databite, Beth Bechky turns her lens of organizational ethnography on the workers handling DNA evidence in a crime lab. She examines how doing science in the service of justice is influenced by advances in data and tech... Read more

Part talk, part science experiment, and part conversation, in this Databite, Daniel Grushkin explores how contemporary biotechnology melds data and biology, and creates a living medium, whose function in our society is only now... Read more

In this era of increasing ubiquity of sensing and computing devices, we still struggle mightily engaging people with systems designed to evaluate and improve health. Several fundamental challenges face developers, clinicians, r... Read more

With the rise of online learning environments, student records are no longer just basic academic and administrative information, but include data and metadata generated from student interaction with digital platforms as well as... Read more

Throughout most of human history, mapping the world was a failure-ridden poetic pursuit — an attempt to visualize that which is just too close to see. Cartographers collected discrete signals and attempted to put them together ... Read more

Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, on her book The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers. One of the characteristics of industrial age enterprises is that they ar... Read more

Attorney and Internet Law & Policy Foundry fellow Amanda Levendowski discusses how to craft effective online harassment and abuse reporting policies (HARP). She discusses the online harassment taxonomy and platform permeabi... Read more

D&S researchers Bonnie Tijerina and Emily Keller present the work of the Supporting Ethics in Data Research project at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2015 meeting: Big Data Ethics Support Systems and Ne... Read on CNI

Sha Hwang (@shashashasha) on building for the government in a time of precarity. Hwang discusses the ongoing work inside Nava as a way to open a conversation around the design of the government's digital services for the pub... Read more

Political actors around the world are beginning to use social bots—automated software programs designed to interact with and imitate human users–to manipulate public opinion. Social bots have been used across numerous online pl... Read more