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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The Formalization of Social Precarities: Platformization from the Perspective of Precarious Workers in India, Brazil, and Bangladesh
Edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen, The Formalization of Social Precarities explores…
April 17, 2024
Report
Intermediaries as infrastructure: Interrogating the phatic labor of state-building
Abstract: Investments in the digital welfare state are often driven by the promise of removing…
March 5, 2024
Academic article
Good Technology Is Slow (to Scale)
Chapter in The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism, edited by Eleanor Drage and Kerry…
February 22, 2024
Chapter
The Backend Work of Data Subjects: Ordinary Challenges of Living with Data in India and the US
Chapter in Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations, edited by Lisa…
December 5, 2023
Chapter
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures
Abstract: This paper explores data security practices of Aadhaar, India's biometrics-based national…
August 25, 2023
Academic article
The Case for Critical Caste and Technology Studies
A new syllabus offers an in-depth guide to caste and its expressions in digital culture
September 14, 2022
Blog post
On Caste and the Digital (ft. Riya Singh and Murali Shanmugavelan)
"How does caste get articulated on the internet? Or where does caste creep in to our studies of…
March 7, 2022
Audio
Study the Imbrication: A Methodological Maxim to Follow the Multiple Lives of Data
in Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India, edited by Sandeep Mertia
January 1, 2020
Chapter
Sareeta Amrute on her new book, Encoding Race, Encoding Class
An interview with Sareeta Amrute on her book "Encoding Race, Encoding Class."
August 18, 2017
Blog post