This primer articulates emerging concerns and tensions coming to the fore as social media platforms overtake traditional media forms, becoming the main way that news and information of cultural, economic, social and political significance is being produced and disseminated. Read more

In this background primer, D&S Research Analyst Laura Reed and D&S Founder danah boyd situate the current debate around the role of technology in the public sphere within a historical context. Read more

These case studies explore situations in which algorithmic media is shaping the public sphere, and complement the contemporary issues primer, "Mediation, Automation, and Power," for the "Algorithms and Publics" project. Read more