This 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 more

In this blog post, D&S Ethan Zuckerman discusses some of the recent work being done by Helen Nissenbaum. While also being a leading thinker on the ethical issues faced in digital spaces, Nissenbaum also lends her support an... Read more

Melissa Morrone of the Brooklyn Public Library on Digital Privacy Literacy: The Public Library Connection — People of just about every background (still!) use public libraries. Library branches and librarians are trusted connec... Read more

Excerpt: "[D&S fellow] Bonnie Tijerina: 'Right now I am working on creating resources for digital privacy literacy, helping to ensure our communities are aware of the rights they give up when they are online and empower the... Read on Data & Society

D&S researcher Monica Bulger appeared in the Myth of the Digital Native panel for the Web We Want Festival. Read on Data & Society

In this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues that privacy-as-default features "help restore public trust in technology as a tool to improve our lives and collectively self-govern." "When technologies c... Read on New York Times

D&S researcher Monica Bulger with Sonia Livingstone wrote a response to the the ten year review of the WSIS implementation. There is much room for improvement to achieve the ‘people-centred, inclusive and development-orient... Read on London School of Economics blog

Julia Angwin, on The Future of Redlining — is a discussion of areas where redlining may be occurring and topics that she may investigate in her work as a journalist at ProPublica. What does redlining look like in an era in whic... Read more

Pointing to an essay on high-frequency trading by Donald Mackenzie, D&S fellow Martha Poon comments on the tension between technologies accommodating "a variety of social visions" and available choices being constrained by ... Read on Socializing Finance

Kath Albury on Digital sexual citizenship: negotiating the politics of representation and risk on geo-locative hook-up apps. About Databites Data & Society’s “Databites” speaker series presents timely conversations ab... Read more