Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner share excerpts and discuss their book, The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online (Polity Press, April 2017).     This book explores the weird and... Read more

"Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online" delves into how various internet subcultures leverage both the techniques of participatory culture and the affordances of social media to spread their various beliefs. Read more

Sorbonne University, New York University’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and Data & Society Research Institute present “Post-Truth and New Realities: Algorithms, Alternative Facts, and Digital Ethics," a t... Read more

D&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on Points

Jennifer Pan presents How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument.      The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,0... Read more

danah boyd responds to criticism of her essays, "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" and "Hacking the Attention Economy." Read on Points

D&S founder danah boyd responds to remarks by the Trump administration stating that their opposition is the media. And now many of the actors most set on undermining institutionalized information intermediaries are in the ... Read on Zephoria.org

D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman writes about fake news and the bigger problem behind fake news. The truly disturbing truth is that fake news isn't the cause of our contemporary political dysfunction. More troublingly, we live ... Read on Deutsche Welle

D&S founder danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking t... Read on Points

Data & Society releases six new essays on the networked public sphere written by danah boyd, Robyn Caplan, Caroline Jack, and Alice Marwick. Read on Points