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Future of Privacy ForumD&S Affiliate Elana Zeide's Future of Privacy Forum paper identifies 19 studies where data was successfully used to evaluate a program, create a new strategy, or delve into equity and bias issues. “Properly used, mind... Read on Future of Privacy ForumMarch 2016 -
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SSRND&S Affiliates Ifeoma Ajunwa, Kate Crawford, and Jason Schultz examine the effectiveness of the law as a check on worker surveillance, given recent technological innovations. This law review article focuses on popular trend... Read on SSRNMarch 2016 -
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Feminist Media StudiesIn this commentary, D&S fellow Karen Levy's considers the gendered dimensions of shifting cultures of work in response to the growing demands of the technologized/mediated workplace. She also explores the impact of new digi... Read on Feminist Media StudiesFebruary 2016 -
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New Media & SocietyAbstract: Increasing broadband adoption among members of underserved populations remains a high priority among policymakers, advocates, corporations, and affected communities. But questions about the risks entailed in the flow ... Read on New Media & SocietyNovember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyHow the Internet is Shaping Social Change, and Social Change is Shaping the Internet Summary As activism for police accountability, fair wages, just immigration, and more takes center stage — social justice movements of the... Read moreAugust 2015 -
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InterfaceD&S advisor Janet Vertesi essays her presentation from Theorizing the Web 2014: The past five years have seen the rise and expansion of a new infrastructural layer to the Internet. Inspired by the unprecedented success of ... Read on InterfaceAugust 2015 -
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GeoJournalD&S Affiliate Kate Crawford writes about the use of social media platforms and mobile phone data to mine and produce accounts of how people are responding in the aftermath of crisis events. She considers the limitations of ... Read on GeoJournalAugust 2015 -
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Sage JournalsAbstract: "The recent proliferation of wearable self-tracking devices intended to regulate and measure the body has brought contingent questions of controlling, accessing and interpreting personal data. Given a socio-technical ... Read on Sage JournalsJune 2015 -
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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 -
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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