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The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington shares impressions from a tour of Facebook's massive Altoona data center, and wonders about the extent to which Facebook might be creating an infrastructure to rival the internet it... Read on The AtlanticDecember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyPolitical actors around the world are beginning to use social bots—automated software programs designed to interact with and imitate human users–to manipulate public opinion. Social bots have been used across numerous online pl... Read moreDecember 2015 -
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MediumIt is well known that gang violence is a serious public health problem, particularly in Chicago, Illinois, where it has claimed over 400 murders and 2,674 shooting victims so far this year. What is less well known is that gang... Read on MediumDecember 2015 -
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hastacD&S researcher Monica Bulger participated in a Trust Challenge webinar dedicated to the digital rights of children. Read on hastacNovember 2015 -
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WilneidaIn one of her "Digitized Brainstorms", D&S fellow Wilneida Negrón provokes readers to consider a new approach to education- one that considers the effects and outcomes that technology has on not only the world around us but... Read on WilneidaNovember 2015 -
blog post
PointsSaiph Savage's “Activist Bots: Helpful But Missing Human Love?” is an output of a weeklong workshop at Data & Society that was led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley and brought together a group of experts to get a b... Read on PointsNovember 2015 -
Longform
The AtlanticD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrington on how the history of infrastructure in the U.S. contributes to Iowa's status a hub of the data-center industry. Google didn’t come to Council Bluffs because of historical resonanc... Read on The AtlanticNovember 2015 -
Academic Article
Sur le journalismeAbstract: What kinds of articles are read most often on news websites? In web newsrooms, journalists now have access to software programs that allow them to track the preferences of their readers in real time. Based on this ... Read on Sur le journalismeNovember 2015 -
Longform
SSIRAll around the world, media outlets are learning that some funders are uncomfortable with supporting journalism merely as a “public good.” They want to see proof of impact. In this article, D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman an... Read on SSIRNovember 2015 -
podcast
ScienceFriday.comIn this interview on Science Friday, D&S advisor Kate Crawford discusses how biases that are present in our culture can be found in big data sets that are used to train algorithms that will make critical decisions such pick... Read on ScienceFriday.comNovember 2015