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Data & SocietyThis primer traces the history of discrimination in home ownership and housing within the US to digital redlining and data mining practices today. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores historical employment discrimination, and investigates the growing use of public data, algorithms, surveillance, and outcome-oriented scoring systems within work environments. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer provides a basic overview to some of the core concepts underpinning the “big data” phenomenon and the practice of data mining. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer outlines the central role that data plays in both medicine and health insurance, and how it enables advances and creates new challenges. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explains how a growing reliance on automated systems, algorithms, and existing networks systematically benefits some at the expense of others -- often without employers even recognizing the biases of such mechanisms. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer provides an overview of the Arts and Crafts Movement and DIY culture and connects them to the recent rise of 3D printing as techno-utopianism while investigating labor practices and structural inequalities in the movements. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer raises critical questions about what fair labor looks like in a networked world and discusses how existing mechanisms of labor protection do not address these contemporary work scenarios. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines networked technologies and analyzes how they are used for widespread workplace surveillance in a variety of employment sectors. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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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 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop primer discusses the inference of relationships by data-oriented systems and analyzes the possible social, cultural, and ethical tensions that may arise from these connections. Read moreMarch 2014