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DatabitesJournalist Sarah Kessler discusses her new book Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work. Kessler shares her analysis of the perils and promises of the platform gig economy in conversation with Data & Society's Ale... Read moreSeptember 2018 -
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DatabitesIn 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 moreMay 2018 -
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DatabitesVirginia 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 moreJanuary 2018 -
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DatabitesTim O'Reilly shares insights from his book WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us (Harper Collins, 2017). WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In today’s economy, w... Read moreOctober 2017 -
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WNYC The TakeawayD&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 TakeawayJune 2017 -
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DatabitesRebecca Wexler discusses the automation of the criminal justice system in America and the ownership of new technologies used by law enforcement. Automation is currently driving privatization. Wexler explains that “new criminal ... Read moreJune 2017 -
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Radio NZD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat was interviewed by Radio NZ about Uber and the promises it makes its drivers, i.e. flexible hours and freedom. Read on Radio NZFebruary 2017 -
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Data & SocietyD&S advisor Claudia Perlich discusses modeling, transparency, and machine learning in a new episode of the Partially Derivative podcast. “One pitfall I see is that it’s easy from a social science perspective to condemn all... Read on Data & SocietyJanuary 2017 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive policing systems are increasingly used by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data? Machine learning algorithms ar... Read moreNovember 2016 -
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Data & SocietyAs algorithms increasingly mediate education, employment, consumer credit, and the criminal justice system, how do we measure their impact on our society? Tracing her experiences as a mathematician an... Read moreOctober 2016