Martha Poon is a social scientist interested in how data-intensive systems are changing the public’s relationship to finance. She researches and writes about the impact of credit scoring technology on consumer access to credit. At the Data & Society Research Institute, she will be developing strategies for investigating, explaining, and communicating the role of information systems in financial innovation. She earned a doctoral degree from the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego in 2012.
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Science, Technology, & Human ValuesD&S fellow and technical writer Martha Poon responds to Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier's Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, challenging their premise that "companies that c... Read on Science, Technology, & Human ValuesJune 2016 -
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Sage JournalsAbstract: When economists ask questions about basic financial principles, most ordinary people answer incorrectly. Economic experts call this condition “financial illiteracy,” which suggests that poor financial outcomes are due... Read on Sage JournalsApril 2015 -
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Socializing FinancePointing 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 FinanceSeptember 2014