Charlton McIlwain shares African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution. Read more

Ruha Benjamin explains how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Read more

Jessie Daniels offers strategies for racial literacy in tech grounded in intellectual understanding, emotional intelligence, and a commitment to take action. Read more

Silicon Valley hopes to leverage data in order to disrupt the credit systems that many low-wage workers rely on. But at what cost? The Workers Lab Co-Founder and CEO Carmen Rojas; Entrepreneur and Author Rachel Schneider; an... Read more

In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.     Data discrimination... Read more

Virginia Eubanks discusses her most recent book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.     Eubanks systematically shows the impacts of data mining, policy algorit... Read more

D&S founder danah boyd discusses machine learning algorithms and prejudice, digital white flight on social media, trust in the media, and more on The Ezra Klein Show. "Technology is made by people in a society, and it has ... Read on The Ezra Klein Show

D&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler describes the intersection of automated technologies, trade secrets, and the criminal justice system. For-profit companies dominate the criminal justice technologies industry and prod... Read on WNYC The Takeaway

Data & Society Fellow Ravi Shroff studies the development and implementation of predictive models for decision making in city and state government. This talk covers Shroff’s research on improving decision making within poli... Read more

What does it mean to talk about fairness within the context of machine learning algorithms, and how do we decide what is fair? Suchana Seth speaks about different definitions of fairness in this lightning talk.   ... Read more