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PointsIn this Points piece, D&S researcher Claire Fontaine argues that educational marketplaces disproportionately advantage those with surplus time, energy, social capital, and institutional knowledge. "Schooling is not a servi... Read on PointsApril 2017 -
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PointsThis piece is adapted, with permission, from “Data, Algorithms, Fairness, Accountability,” danah boyd’s talk at the October 28, 2016, meeting of the U.S Department of Commerce Data Advisory Council. Read on PointsApril 2017 -
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RhizomeD&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington, with Josh Begley and Seth Freed Wessler, created an installation on presentation at the Ace Hotel. Building on Wessler’s journalistic investigation into privately run immigrant-on... Read on RhizomeApril 2017 -
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PointsD&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 PointsMarch 2017 -
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MediumD&S advisor Anil Dash discusses how interviews can exclude people from the tech industry. When we mimic patterns from tech culture without knowing why we do them, we often take good ideas and turn them into terrible barri... Read on MediumMarch 2017 -
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AnilDash.comD&S advisor Anil Dash discusses Fake Markets that are dominated by few tech companies. Worse, we’ve lost the ability to discern that a short-term benefit for some users that’s subsidized by an unsustainable investment mode... Read on AnilDash.comMarch 2017 -
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PointsAudrey Watters responds to the Data & Society report, The Legacy of inBloom, which traces the demise of the educational technology initiative. Read on PointsFebruary 2017 -
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Pointsdanah boyd responds to criticism of her essays, "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" and "Hacking the Attention Economy." Read on PointsFebruary 2017 -
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PointsOlga Garcia-Kaplan responds to the Data & Society report, The Legacy of inBloom, which traces the demise of the educational technology initiative. Read on PointsFebruary 2017 -
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PointsBrenda Leong and Amelia Vance of Future of Privacy Forum respond to the Data & Society report, The Legacy of inBloom, which traces the demise of the educational technology initiative. Read on PointsFebruary 2017