Data & Society community members wrote individually about "Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks" (PNAS 2014 111 (24) 8788-8790) and the public controversy surrounding the study.... Read more

Abstract: Intense media and policy focus on issues of online child protection have prompted a resurgence of moral panics about children and adolescents' Internet use, with frequent confounding of different types of risk and har... Read on Taylor & Francis Online

Before he moves to China, one of our advisors – Clay Shirky – has agreed to host a Databite discussion around the question of how we should think about regulating the effects of big data given various cognitive biases. About... Read more

In this essay Data & Society affiliate Kate Crawford asks, “What does the lived reality of Big Data feel like?” She offers "surveillant anxiety — the fear that all the data we are shedding every day is too revealing of our ... Read on The New Inquiry

(Conference draft). "Networked Rights and Networked Harms." Presented at Privacy Law School Conference (June 6, 2014) and Data & Discrimination (May 14, 2014). The goal of this paper (far from a finished product, filled ... Read more

In this op-ed, Data & Society advisor Janet Vertesi argues that opting out of personal data collection is not a simple or straightforward way to have privacy from marketers and technology companies. To demonstrate the high ... Read on TIME

This 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 more

"Data Supply Chains" analyzes three case studies and investigates the major social, cultural, and ethical tensions that emerge as a result of transferred data. Read more

This workshop primer discusses uneven data access and distribution, and analyzes how lack of access affects the broader issues of inequality and asymmetries in power. Read more

This workshop primer discusses three case studies and explores questions related to the major social, cultural, and ethical tensions that emerge from our society's growing dependence on algorithmic technology. Read more