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blog post
MediumD&S affiliate Anthony Townsend writes more on city charters and big data. The point is… what we now think of as ‘hidebound obsolete bureaucracy’ was no so long ago the cutting edge analytics and evidence-based administrati... Read on MediumJuly 2016 -
podcast
Data StoriesD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha is interviewed about design processes and current projects. Read on Data StoriesJuly 2016 -
video
Data & SocietyOver the summer of 2014, Tim Maughan joined the nomadic design studio Unknown Fields on a three week long journey. They followed a supply chain (in reverse) from South Korea to China to trace the source of our consumer goods. A... Read moreJuly 2016 -
blog post
MediumD&S research analyst Mikaela Pitcan wrote a brief overview discussing student data privacy. Student data privacy conversations center on concerns regarding the safeguarding of data collected in educational settings. These ... Read on MediumJuly 2016 -
The New York TimesD&S founder danah boyd defends young people's usage of Pokémon Go. Today’s youth aren’t lazy. They want to socialize and they want to interact. They are just given too few opportunities to do so. What Pokémon Go offers is ... Read on The New York TimesJuly 2016
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Academic Article
Taylor & Francis OnlineD&S advisor Tarleton Gillespie writes "Algorithmically recognizable: Santorum’s Google problem, and Google’s Santorum problem". Abstract is below: Because information algorithms make judgments that can have powerful conseq... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineJuly 2016 -
op-ed
MIT Technology ReviewD&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman defends usage of video recording of police officers. If video doesn't lead to the indictment of officers who shoot civilians, are we wrong to expect justice from sousveillance? The police who sh... Read on MIT Technology ReviewJuly 2016 -
podcast
video
DatabitesAs an increasing number of industries digitize, the economy around data analysis – particularly predictive modeling – has exploded. The problem is, we don’t have any real way to understand, analyze, or predict the accuracy of t... Read moreJuly 2016 -
blog post
MediumD&S affiliate Christina Xu details some of her field research. Read on MediumJuly 2016 -
Academic Article
Communications of the ACMData & Society Researcher Jacob Metcalf reconsiders research ethics in the wake of big data. "Many of the familiar norms and regulations of research ethics formulated to prior paradigms of research risks and harms, and thu... Read on Communications of the ACMJuly 2016