January 21, 2026
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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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Notes Towards a Digital Worker’s Inquiry
"First-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence…
November 4, 2025
Book
Ideologies of AI and the Consolidation of Power
Abstract: This introductory essay for the special issue of First Monday, “Ideologies of AI and the…
April 14, 2024
Academic article
Ethics Owners: A New Model of Organizational Responsibility in Data-Driven Technology Companies
Report authors Emanuel Moss and Jacob Metcalf draw on interviews and ethnographic observation to…
September 23, 2020
Report
Immigrant Sensibilities in Tech Worlds: Sensing Hate, Capturing Dissensus
Abstract: Seattle and its environs are home to more than eighty tech companies, which have added…
August 17, 2020
Academic article
The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies
Manny Moss and Jake Metcalf examine the tensions arising in new ethics initiatives at tech…
November 14, 2019
Article
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