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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 -
op-ed
Harvard Business ReviewD&S Researcher Alex Rosenblat examines how Uber’s app design and deployment redistributes management functions to semiautomated and algorithmic systems, as well as to consumer ratings systems, creating ambiguity around who ... Read on Harvard Business ReviewApril 2016 -
Academic Article
SSRND&S Fellow Sorelle Friedler and D&S Affiliate Ifeoma Ajunwa argue in this essay that well settled legal doctrines that prohibit discrimination against job applicants on the basis of sex or race dictate an examination of... Read on SSRNMarch 2016 -
Academic Article
Feminist Media StudiesIn this commentary, D&S fellow Karen Levy's considers the gendered dimensions of shifting cultures of work in response to the growing demands of the technologized/mediated workplace. She also explores the impact of new digi... Read on Feminist Media StudiesFebruary 2016 -
Longform
SlateD&S Researcher Madeleine Clare Elish considers the possibility of a full-on replacement of humans by robots. She argues that this scenario is nowhere near as close as we have been led to believe. Though algorithms can do an... Read on SlateFebruary 2016 -
Longform
ProPublicaLauren Kirchner and D&S fellow Surya Mattu report for ProPublica on the findings of an analysis that contradicts Uber's argument for the surge prices that it charges users. Read on ProPublicaOctober 2015 -
op-ed
Pacific StandardD&S researcher Alex Rosenblat published an essay on remote management in Pacific Standard’s The Future of Work and Workers series: Rather than having managers who listen to them and deliver feedback, drivers are managed th... Read on Pacific StandardSeptember 2015 -
op-ed
Slate"Increasingly, what underlies the debate over the so-called sharing economy is a nascent, bigger battle about how society wants machines coordinating and governing human activity. These apps don't match and route people by hand... Read on SlateJuly 2015 -
Resource
Data & SocietyThis primer discusses the influence of science-fiction on intelligent systems and examines the growing ways in which AI technology is changing and disrupting human labor. Read moreOctober 2014