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blog post
MediumD&S founder danah boyd considers recent efforts at reforming laws around student privacy and what it would mean to actually consider the privacy rights of the most marginalized students. The threats that poor youth face? T... Read on MediumMay 2015 -
Longform
Data & SocietyD&S fellow Gideon Lichfield's short story for the Police Technology and Civil Rights Roundtable: "The year is 2019, and body cams have become standard for patrol officers in most police departments in the US. The cams an... Read moreMay 2015 -
Academic Article
International Journal of Communication"Communication technologies increasingly mediate data exchanges rather than human communication. We propose the term data valences to describe the differences in expectations that people have for data across different social se... Read on International Journal of CommunicationMay 2015 -
Longform
The AtlanticExcerpt: "Police-worn body cameras are coming. Support for them comes from stakeholders who often take opposing views. Law enforcement wants them, many politicians are pushing for them, and communities that already have a stron... Read on The AtlanticMay 2015 -
Book or Chapter
Data & SocietyD&S fellow Ingrid Burrington's popular field guide which, in the style of an Audubon Society bird book, enumerates the street markings and network devices located throughout NYC’s public spaces. An online field guide to ne... Read on Data & SocietyMay 2015 -
op-ed
Fast Company"I just spoke with Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, a senior PhD student in computational privacy at the MIT Media Lab, and I’ve got some bad news about data and privacy. Then I’ve got worse news. But fear not, because after that I... Read on Fast CompanyMay 2015 -
op-ed
TIME"But as history tells us, camera evidence does not an indictment make." D&S advisor, Janet Vertesi discusses the difficulty with visual evidence in criminal indictments and the power of visual suggestibility. Offering ev... Read on TIMEMay 2015 -
video
Data & SocietyIs it possible to openly share important raw data sets while preserving the privacy of individuals whose personal information is captured in the data in anonymized form? Numerous recent reports have suggested that it is often p... Read moreApril 2015 -
op-ed
Fast CompanyAfter his Facebook account was hacked, D&S advisor Baratunde Thurston saw the other side of allowing social media giants to access other websites, apps, and services. After sharing his take-aways from the experience you mig... Read on Fast CompanyApril 2015 -
Academic Article
Taylor & Francis Online"This article examines the implications of electronic monitoring systems for organizational information flows and worker control, in the context of the U.S. trucking industry. Truckers, a spatially dispersed group of workers wi... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineMarch 2015