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Data & SocietyOnline harassment isn’t a new plight or issue within social media, but what is new is the study and focus on online harassment. New verbiage, vocabulary, and offline initiatives have been created to focus on and provide support... Read moreNovember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn the Attention Economy, the competition for a billion people’s attention (on screens, apps, the web or virtual realities) has become a race to seduce their psychological instincts. What if technology were instead designed to ... Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Transition 2015In this video from Transition 2015, D&S fellow Tim Hwang gives an overview of "Why Standards Matter" in his presentation that provides insight into the power that global standards have to mold the world. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyHow might we use game theory, data, and technology to advance social justice? Callisto is an online sexual assault reporting system that allows college students to (1) find clear information about about their reporting options,... Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyFrancine Berman (@FranBerman) presents Dude, where’s my data? – Building a sustainable data ecosystem. All the cool stuff in the digital world presupposes that the data will be there when you need it, but will it? Without da... Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyDr. William B. Jordan (@npalive) presents My Doctor Would Never Do That: Large databases of physician behavior have been made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other sources to reveal pr... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn 2012 New York launched one of the most ambitious education reform policy agendas in the country fueled by $700M in Race to the Top funding. New technology, online collaboration, and data driven instruction were at the center... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyEarly research on learning in online ecologies like fanfiction and gaming communities pointed to the power of open networks characterized by rich social practices to support learning, but at the same time showed a clear lack of... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThe search for protective factors in health turns the disease research paradigm – and potentially our notions about it – upside down. A collaborative, scientific and social endeavor like this also pushes on many hot topics: clo... Read moreAugust 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThe public interest concept has traditionally been a central, multi-faceted, and highly contested guiding principle in the governance of media platforms that have played a significant role in the dissemination of news and infor... Read moreJuly 2015