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    Drawn from the experiences of U.S. ridehail, care, and cleaning platform workers, new Data & Society report demonstrates how technology reshapes the future of labor. Read more
    June 2018
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    New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; interviews journalists on accidental amplification of extreme agendas Read more
    May 2018
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    New Data & Society ethnographic study illuminates conservative methods of fact-checking media; warns that search engines may facilitate disinformation Read more
    May 2018
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    Report provides new evidence of the critical role internet connectivity and mobile devices play in the lives and wellbeing of this population. Read more
    April 2018
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    Spectrum of Trust in Data offers a framework for understanding New York City parents’ and guardians’ orientations toward publicly available school data. Read more
    March 2018
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    Fairness in Precision Medicine is the first report to deeply examine the potential for biased and discriminatory outcomes in the emerging field of precision medicine; "the effort to collect, integrate and analyze multiple sources of data in order to develop individualized insights about health and disease." Read more
    February 2018
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    The Precision Medicine National Actor Map is the first visualization of the three major national precision medicine projects--All of Us Research Program, My Research Legacy, Project Baseline--and the network of institutions connected to them as grantees and sub-grantees. The map was developed for the Fairness in Precision Medicine initiative at Data & Society. Read more
    February 2018
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    What is Precision Medicine? is a general audience white paper by Dr. Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan that introduces and outlines the emerging field of precision medicine; the effort to collect, integrate and analyze multiple sources of data in order to develop individualized insights about health and disease. Read more
    February 2018
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    Data & Society report responds to the "fake news" problem by evaluating the successes and failures of recent media literacy efforts while pointing towards next steps for educators, legislators, technologists, and philanthropists. Read more
    February 2018
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    New Data & Society report clarifies uses of "fake news" and analyzes four specific strategies for intervention. Read more
    February 2018
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