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Data & SocietyThis primer traces the history of discrimination in home ownership and housing within the US to digital redlining and data mining practices today. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores historical employment discrimination, and investigates the growing use of public data, algorithms, surveillance, and outcome-oriented scoring systems within work environments. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer provides a basic overview to some of the core concepts underpinning the “big data” phenomenon and the practice of data mining. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explains how a growing reliance on automated systems, algorithms, and existing networks systematically benefits some at the expense of others -- often without employers even recognizing the biases of such mechanisms. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer raises critical questions about what fair labor looks like in a networked world and discusses how existing mechanisms of labor protection do not address these contemporary work scenarios. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop primer discusses the inference of relationships by data-oriented systems and analyzes the possible social, cultural, and ethical tensions that may arise from these connections. Read moreMarch 2014 -
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Data & Society"Data Supply Chains" analyzes three case studies and investigates the major social, cultural, and ethical tensions that emerge as a result of transferred data. Read moreMarch 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop primer discusses uneven data access and distribution, and analyzes how lack of access affects the broader issues of inequality and asymmetries in power. Read moreMarch 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop primer discusses three case studies and explores questions related to the major social, cultural, and ethical tensions that emerge from our society's growing dependence on algorithmic technology. Read moreMarch 2014