AI is projected to spur immense growth in our economy across 19 sectors, including targeted advertising, which raises data-mining and digital privacy concerns. In this talk, Data & Society Fellow Mutale Nkonde discusses ... Read more

In her talk, Data & Society Fellow Chancey Fleet describes “the state of non-visual access to everyday digital interactions” as an area which deeply needs and deserves more attention and exploration by those working in tech... Read more

How can we do less harm to communities of color with the technology we create? In their new paper Advancing Racial Literacy in Tech, Data & Society 2018-19 Fellows Jessie Daniels and Mutale Nkonde and 2017-18 Fellow Dara... Read more

"Alternative Influence" by Rebecca Lewis identifies an alternative media system on YouTube that adopts the techniques of brand influencers to build audiences and “sell” them political ideology. Read more

First amendment legal scholar Claudia Haupt discusses speech protection versus speech regulation and how these issues are approached in various countries around the world. This talk visits and describes different sets of... 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

For Slate, Data & Society Researcher Jacob Metcalf argues that we should be more concerned about behavioral models developed by entities like Cambridge Analytica, which can be traded between political entities, rather than ... Read on Slate

K. Sabeel Rahman discusses the prospects for remedying private platform power in the 21st century.     The informational, economic, and political influence of the dominant tech platforms — Google, Faceboo... Read more

Philip Napoli and D&S researcher Robyn Caplan write on why companies like Google and Facebook insist that they are merely tech companies with no media impact, and why they are wrong for First Monday. Abstract is below: A c... Read on First Monday

D&S advisor Anil Dash presents the newest episode of On Being. Back in November, I got to sit down with the amazing Krista Tippett for a lengthy interview in front of an incredibly warm crowd in Easton, MD. Now, that inter... Read on AnilDash.com