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Data & SocietyOver the summer of 2014, Tim Maughan joined the nomadic design studio Unknown Fields on a three week long journey. They followed a supply chain (in reverse) from South Korea to China to trace the source of our consumer goods. A... Read moreJuly 2016 -
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Data & SocietyPolitical actors around the world are beginning to use social bots—automated software programs designed to interact with and imitate human users–to manipulate public opinion. Social bots have been used across numerous online pl... Read moreDecember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyHow we think about data — and more importantly what we do with it — will depend on the value systems that our conceptual metaphors capture and reify. Much of the rhetoric surrounding data draws on metaphors that privilege an in... Read moreJune 2015 -
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Data & SocietyAdam Berenzweig (@madadam) on deep learning, machine perception, and the future of memory: Adam reviews the ongoing revolution in machine learning, focusing on neural networks and machine perception, and presents a short ear... Read moreMay 2015 -
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Data & SocietyKate Crawford has suggested that critics of algorithms suffer from a "metaphor gap" in trying to make sense of how algorithmic systems work. In this conversational provocation, Nick Seaver argues that we can usefully think of r... Read moreApril 2015 -
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Tech Policy Lab University of Washington"As policy concerns around intelligent and autonomous systems come to focus increasingly on transparency and usability, the time is ripe for an inquiry into the theater of autonomous systems. When do (and when should) law and p... Read on Tech Policy Lab University of WashingtonApril 2015