January 15, 2025
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Research and Resource Library
This library includes Data & Society publications produced over our 10+ year history. Our research, events, and insights explore how technology shapes society, and how society can shape technology in turn.
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Example “Big Data” Research Controversies
This document is meant to provide some example controversies to spark a conversation about how to…
November 10, 2024
Report
Governing with Algorithmic Impact Assessments: Six Observations
Paper for AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). Abstract:…
May 14, 2021
Academic article
Databite No. 131: Data Feminism
Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein discuss their new book, Data Feminism, with Data &…
May 13, 2020
Video
Too Big a Word
What does it mean to do “ethics" in the technology industry? We found four overlapping meanings.
April 29, 2020
Blog post
Tech Colonialism Today
Is tech colonial today? A transcript of Sareeta Amrute's talk at EPIC2019.
February 25, 2020
Blog post
Feminist Data Manifest-No
In collaboration with other scholars, Faculty Fellow Anita Say Chan lays out the demands for a…
November 12, 2019
Press
September 10, 2019
Academic article
Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics
Data & Society Researchers Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, and Founder and President danah boyd…
September 10, 2019
Academic article
“The study has been approved by the IRB”: Gayface AI, research hype and the pervasive data ethics gap
Data & Society Researcher Jacob Metcalf argues for an ethical approach to data science and offers…
November 30, 2017
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Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice
D&S founder and President danah boyd & affiliate Solon Barocas investigate the practice of ethics…
November 1, 2017
Academic article