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ProPublicaD&S affiliate Surya Mattu with Julia Angwin examine how Amazon's shopping algorithm directs customers to buy Amazon or Amazon-affiliated sellers' merchandise, even if products from other sellers on the platform cost much le... Read on ProPublicaSeptember 2016 -
report
Data & Society"The Wisdom of the Captured" analyzes how widely captured data of technologies, which enable these technologies to make intelligent decisions, may negatively impact users. Read moreSeptember 2016 -
blog post
MediumD&S affiliate Karen Crawford wrote a compelling piece, sparked by Facebook's censorship of "The Terror of War" photograph, on the social impacts of artificial intelligence. The core issue here isn’t that AI is worse than t... Read on MediumSeptember 2016 -
Longform
Real Life MagazineD&S researcher Josh Scannell wrote an extensive analysis of predictive policing algorithms, showing that, while they were not built to be racist, they mirror a racist system. Northpointe’s algorithms will always be racist,... Read on Real Life MagazineAugust 2016 -
Academic Article
Florida Law Review ForumThe mythology surrounding “big data” rests on the notion that technical systems can increase efficiency and decrease bias. Such “neutral” systems are supposedly good for implementing legal logic because, like these systems, law... Read on Florida Law Review ForumAugust 2016 -
blog post
TheRideShareGuy.comD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat wrote a blog post discussing how Uber can implement wage withholding policies without driver input or negotiation. This set up essentially provides negative disincentives to drivers to retriev... Read on TheRideShareGuy.comAugust 2016 -
Academic Article
arXivD&S fellow Diana Freed co-authored a health technology piece that introduces an approach called YADL (Your Activities of Daily Living), which 'uses images of ADLs and personalization to improve survey efficiency and the pat... Read on arXivAugust 2016 -
Academic Article
International Journal of CommunicationD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat and Luke Stark published a case study of Uber drivers and highlight the information and power asymmetries produced by the Uber application. Abstract is below. Uber manages a large, disaggregat... Read on International Journal of CommunicationJuly 2016 -
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Data & SocietyIn this Databite, Mr. Hidalgo journeys through two fellowships — his Data & Society Fellowship and construction of a new fellowship for 21st century civic hackers. The first half of the discussion... Read moreJuly 2016 -
Academic Article
Taylor & Francis OnlineD&S advisor Tarleton Gillespie writes "Algorithmically recognizable: Santorum’s Google problem, and Google’s Santorum problem". Abstract is below: Because information algorithms make judgments that can have powerful conseq... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineJuly 2016