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Pointsdanah boyd's remarks from her keynote at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York City explore media manipulation, data security, and system vulnerabilities. Read on PointsOctober 2017 -
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PointsTarleton Gillespie critiques the opacity of Facebook’s content moderation policies, arguing that their process has become too complex and high-stakes to be left hidden from the public. Read on PointsMay 2017 -
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Pointsdanah boyd reflects on "fake news", problematic solutionism, and America's culture and information wars. Read on PointsMarch 2017 -
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BackchannelD&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on BackchannelMarch 2017 -
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PointsD&S founder danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking t... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsData & Society releases six new essays on the networked public sphere written by danah boyd, Robyn Caplan, Caroline Jack, and Alice Marwick. Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “How do you deal with a problem like ‘fake news?’” D&S researcher Robyn Caplan weighs in on the potential — and pitfalls — of efforts to curb Facebook’s fake news problem. Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsIn “Are There Limits to Online Free Speech?” D&S fellow Alice Marwick argues against simplistic binaries pitting free speech against censorship, looking at how the tech industry’s historic commitment to freedom of speech fa... Read on PointsJanuary 2017 -
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PointsD&S advisor Baratunde Thurston details his exploration of The Glass Room exhibit. "I want to see The Glass Room everywhere there is an Apple Store…And anyone founding or working for a tech company should have to prove th... Read on PointsDecember 2016 -
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MediumD&S advisor Christina Xu writes about fake news and conspiracy theories in China. Here in China, even well-educated and progressive friends have sincerely asked me about some pretty niche conspiracies. Did Hillary really a... Read on MediumNovember 2016