D&S founder danah boyd declares: “It’s not Cyberspace anymore.” While at Davos, danah reflects on the 20 years since John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". "There is a power shift unde... Read on Points

In this Databite, Beth Bechky turns her lens of organizational ethnography on the workers handling DNA evidence in a crime lab. She examines how doing science in the service of justice is influenced by advances in data and tech... Read more

Part talk, part science experiment, and part conversation, in this Databite, Daniel Grushkin explores how contemporary biotechnology melds data and biology, and creates a living medium, whose function in our society is only now... Read more

A Digital Passage "Phones, social media, mobile apps, online maps, instant messaging, translation websites, wire money transfers, cell phone charging stations, and Wi-Fi hotspots have created a new infrastructure for movemen... Read on Points

D&S fellow Natasha Singer explores the differences in how the United States and Europe treat data protection and privacy. In the United States, a variety of laws apply to specific sectors, like health and credit. In the Eu... Read on The New York Times

In this era of increasing ubiquity of sensing and computing devices, we still struggle mightily engaging people with systems designed to evaluate and improve health. Several fundamental challenges face developers, clinicians, r... Read more

"We didn’t architect for prejudice, but we didn’t design systems to combat it either." Points: “What World Are We Building?” is adapted, with permission, from a talk of the same name. On October 20, 2015, Data & Society ... Read on Points

D&S fellow Natasha Singer on the impact of Kinvolved, an app which automatically texts parents if a child is absent or tardy. Kinvolved’s goal is to spur greater parental involvement by increasing the details parents recei... Read on The New York Times

With the rise of online learning environments, student records are no longer just basic academic and administrative information, but include data and metadata generated from student interaction with digital platforms as well as... Read more

Throughout most of human history, mapping the world was a failure-ridden poetic pursuit — an attempt to visualize that which is just too close to see. Cartographers collected discrete signals and attempted to put them together ... Read more