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Research

Data & Society researchers produce rigorous and relevant evidence to ground and inform public debates.

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Media Manipulation & Disinformation
We take a sociotechnical approach to understanding the social, political, and economic incentives to game information systems, websites, platforms, and search engines.
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AI on the Ground
We use social science to develop robust analyses of AI systems; effectively assess the impact of AI systems; and inform future design, use, and governance.
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Labor Futures
We focus on structural inequalities to analyze how technology is disrupting, destabilizing, and transforming many aspects of the labor force.
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Health & Data
We analyze the unintended consequences of health data collection; equitable outcomes in data-centric approaches to health; and what constitutes healthy behavior in the context of technology use.

Featured Reports

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Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker
Matt GoerzenGabriella Coleman
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Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace
Ryan EllisYuan Stevens
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Electronic Visit Verification: the Weight of Surveillance and the Fracturing ...
Alexandra Mateescu
Assembling Accountability: Algorithmic Impact Assessment for the Public Interest
Emanuel Moss, et al.

Our Approach to Research

Debates about the societal influence of data and automation cannot meaningfully happen without an evidence base, drawn from empirical research, that challenges the hype and fear surrounding sociotechnical systems. At Data & Society, we pursue frame-breaking research questions informed by the realities of those who may be adversely affected by the integration and implementation of these technologies.

Latest Academic Articles

What the facebook files tell us about racial capitalism
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Democracy’s Data Infrastructure
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Algorithmic Impact Assessments and Accountability: The Co-construction of Impacts
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Past Projects

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Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society
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Data and Equity in School Choice
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Digital Privacy & Data Literacy
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Education & Data
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Human Rights & Data
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Human Rights, Data, and Migration
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Mapping Inequalities Across the On-Demand Economy
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Privacy & Data
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Socio-technical Security
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Understanding Privacy as a Means of Economic Redistribution
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Cities of Data
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Data & Fairness
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Reframing Privacy
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Supporting Ethics in Data Research
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Survey Research into the Privacy and Security Experiences of Low-SES Populations
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What Lenders See
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Cyberstalking and Digital Domestic Abuse
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Enabling Connected Learning
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Empowering the next generation of civic leaders
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Intelligence and Autonomy
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Ethics in “Big Data” Research
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Network Geography 101
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Privacy
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Algorithms and Publics
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Data, Human Rights & Human Security
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Understanding and Evaluating Health Technologies for Patients with Chronic Multiple Conditions
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Data Science Reasoning
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Tech Translation
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Fairness in Precision Medicine