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Longform
The American ProspectBrian Callaci looks at climate stabilization and the impact on fossil fuel industry workers. Read on The American ProspectJuly 2016 -
blog post
PointsKiel Brennan-Marquez unpacks Spokeo v. Robins, with an eye to effective governance of algorithms in the future. Read on PointsJune 2016 -
blog post
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 -
Academic Article
EDUCAUSE reviewD&S researcher Bonnie Tijerina offers an overview of the work undertaken by the Supporting Ethics in Data Research project. Complex data sets raise challenging ethical questions about risk to individuals who are not sufficie... Read on EDUCAUSE reviewJune 2016 -
blog post
Points"The FBI recently announced its plan to request that their massive biometrics database, called the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, be exempted from basic requirements under the Privacy Act. These exemptions would p... Read on PointsJune 2016 -
video
Data & SocietyAlan Leidner presents GIS In NYC: Past, Present and Future. Alan Leidner orients us to Geospatial Informational Systems (GIS) and discusses how enterprise GIS grew and developed in NYC, its special (or spatial) powers, and how ... Read moreJune 2016 -
op-ed
SlateD&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish discusses the complexities of error in automated systems. Elish argues that the human role in automated systems has become 'the weak link, rather than the point of stability'. We need t... Read on SlateJune 2016 -
blog post
Points"Code is key to civic life, but we need to start looking under the hood and thinking about the externalities of our coding practices, especially as we’re building code as fast as possible with few checks and balances." Point... Read on PointsJune 2016 -
blog post
PointsWhat the journalists from SourceFed may have stumbled upon was not an instance in which search results were intentionally being manipulated in favor of a candidate, but how algorithms can reflect complex jurisdictional issues a... Read on PointsJune 2016 -
blog post
PointsIn this Points piece “Real Life Harms of Student Data,” D&S researcher Mikaela Pitcan argues that assessing real harms connected with student data forces us to acknowledge the mundane, human causes. And she asks: "What do ... Read on PointsJune 2016