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MediumD&S affiliate Karen Crawford wrote a compelling piece, sparked by Facebook's censorship of "The Terror of War" photograph, on the social impacts of artificial intelligence. The core issue here isn’t that AI is worse than t... Read on MediumSeptember 2016 -
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PointsKiel Brennan-Marquez unpacks Spokeo v. Robins, with an eye to effective governance of algorithms in the future. Read on PointsJune 2016 -
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EthnographyMatters.netD&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish asserts ethnography and anthropology's role in studying automation and intelligent systems. Cultural perceptions of the role of humans in automated and robotic systems need to be update... Read on EthnographyMatters.netJune 2016 -
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CultureDigitally.orgD&S Advisor Tarleton Gillespie responds to Gizmodo's recent piece alleging bias in Facebook's Trending Topics list. He argues that information algorithms like the ones used to identify “trends” on Facebook do not work alone... Read on CultureDigitally.orgMay 2016 -
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London School of Economics blogD&S Affiliate Seeta Peña Gangadharan discusses how automated systems have transformed the ways in which our data is processed, analyzed, and used by companies that are not held to account for the potential uses of data that... Read on London School of Economics blogApril 2016 -
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Points"Over the last two years, Data & Society has been convening a Council on Big Data, Ethics, and Society where we’ve had intense discussions about how to situate ethics in the practice of data science. We talked about the imp... Read on PointsApril 2016 -
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Pointsdanah boyd's “What is the Value of a Bot?” is an output of a weeklong workshop at Data & Society that was led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley and brought together a group of experts to get a better grip on the que... Read on PointsFebruary 2016 -
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PointsAlexis Lloyd's "Our friends, the bots?" was a contribution to a weeklong workshop at Data & Society that was led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley and brought together a group of experts to get a better grip on the ... Read on PointsFebruary 2016 -
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PointsAllison Parrish's “Bots: A definition and some historical threads” is an output of a weeklong workshop at Data & Society that was led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley and brought together a group of experts to get ... Read on PointsFebruary 2016 -
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Points"How to Think About Bots" is the first output of a weeklong workshop at Data & Society that was led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley and brought together a group of experts to get a better grip on the questions tha... Read on PointsFebruary 2016