Alice Marwick argues against simplistic binaries pitting free speech against censorship, looking at how the tech industry’s historic commitment to freedom of speech falls short in the face of organized harassment.

Caroline Jack notes a resurgence in the popularity of “propaganda” as a judgment-laden label for a vast array of media ranging from fringe conspiracy theories to establishment news institutions.

danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking the attention eco...

Robyn Caplan weighs in on the potential — and pitfalls — of efforts to curb Facebook’s fake news problem.  

D&S founder danah boyd's prepared remarks for a public roundtable in the European Parliament on algorithmic accountability and transparency in the digital economy were adapted in this Points piece. "I believe that algori...

Gilad Lotan, former Chief Data Scientist at betaworks, chaperones us through some trends in how conversation and attention are being shaped online and argues they present a larger problem than “fake news.” How can the ideal of ...

D&S post-doctoral scholar Caroline Jack responds to “Gig Work, Online Selling and Home Sharing” from Pew Research Center. "The more that is known about the workers and the work of the on-demand economy, the stronger the ...

D&S post-doctoral scholar Julia Ticona responds to “Gig Work, Online Selling and Home Sharing” from Pew Research Center. "Contingent work has always been prevalent in communities where workers have been historically excl...

Jennifer Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach discuss AI, uncertainty, and why you should vote no matter what predictions say.

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