In “Did Media Literacy Backfire?” D&S founder danah boyd argues that the thorny problems of fake news and the spread of conspiracy theories have, in part, origins in efforts to educate people against misinformation. At the ... Read on Points

In “What’s Propaganda Got To Do With It?” Caroline Jack notes a resurgence in the popularity of “propaganda” as a judgment-laden label for a vast array of media ranging from fringe conspiracy theories to establishment news inst... Read on Points

D&S founder danah boyd opines on the usefulness of election polls and calls for the cessation of these polls. It’s now time for the media to put a moratorium on reporting on election polls and fancy visualizations of stati... Read on Points

D&S founder danah boyd asserts that the media must be held accountable in producing and disseminating information. "We live in a world shaped by fear and hype, not because it has to be that way, but because this is the o... Read on Points

D&S founder danah boyd critiques traditional media's response to the September 17th bombings in NYC. Traditional news media has a lot of say in what it publishes. This is one of the major things that distinguishes it from ... Read on Medium

Anil Dash wrote a piece describing the evolution of blogs. He compares past and current capabilities of features, such as searches, comments, and following. He concludes with: Ultimately, though, I think most of these ideas we... Read on Medium

What the journalists from SourceFed may have stumbled upon was not an instance in which search results were intentionally being manipulated in favor of a candidate, but how algorithms can reflect complex jurisdictional issues a... Read on Points

In this blog post, D&S fellow Mimi Onuoha discusses the motivations of those who contribute to crowdsourced journalism as a part of the forthcoming report "Guide to Crowdsourcing". Read on Data & Society