Nicholas Chung asks can tech disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline? Spend any time working in the areas of class, race, criminal justice, or education and you’ll face the firmly established school-to-prison pipeline. Statist... Read more

The growth of the Identity State is premised on the administrative fantasy that citizens can be grasped, fixed, and rendered stable in the state’s imagination. Biometric technologies are seen as core to this act of fixation, de... Read more

Chris Dixon (@cdixon) on the possibilities of blockchain technology: The basis of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin is the blockchain — essentially a decentralized, public, tamper-proof ledger of all transactions. But the same b... Read more

Vanessa Kitzie and Debanjan Ghosh of Rutgers University present their research exploring black and white experiences of criminal justice, and how these experiences are narrated on social media. On December 3, 2014, after a g... Read more

"Leading thinkers from business, government, civil society, and academia [including D&S affiliate Kate Crawford] explore and debate ethics in the age of the quantified society. What role do ethics play in guiding existing e... Read on Data & Society

How we think about data — and more importantly what we do with it — will depend on the value systems that our conceptual metaphors capture and reify. Much of the rhetoric surrounding data draws on metaphors that privilege an in... Read more

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Maurice Mitchell (@MauriceWFP) on hacking black democracy: Maurice talks about black communities as democratic dead zones in which segregation concentrates harm in communities and disappears social problems from dominant pop... Read more

Although we cannot disclaim the utility of genetic data, it is important to consider whether we are being socially and governmentally coerced to relinquish our genetic data. If so, what does this mean for privacy and discrimina... Read more

Access is an international organization that extends and defends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. In this Databite, Peter Micek and Deji Olukotun examine the increasing trend of Internet shutdowns worldwide... Read more