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Data & Society

Presenting timely conversations about the purpose and power of technology that bridge our interdisciplinary research with broader public conversations about the societal implications of data and autom... Read more

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Race After Technology

Race After Technology

Ruha Benjamin discusses the relationship between machine bias and systemic racism, analyzing specific cases of “discrimi... Read more

26 Nov 2019

35mins

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Black Software

Black Software

Charlton McIlwain, author of "Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter,... Read more

4 Dec 2019

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Online Speech Regulation: A Comparative Perspective

Online Speech Regulation: A Comparative Perspective

Claudia Haupt discusses competing frameworks for regulating speech on the web. Claudia Haupt is a 2017-18 Data & Soc... Read more

31 Jul 2018

14mins

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Exposing Police Misconduct Data in the Era of Digital Privacy Concerns

Exposing Police Misconduct Data in the Era of Digital Privacy Concerns

This past year, 2018-2019 Data & Society Fellow Cynthia Conti-Cook tackled an aspect of the criminal justice system ... Read more

23 Jul 2019

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Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary

Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary

Historian Louis Hyman on the surprising origins of the “gig economy.” Hyman is joined in conversation by Data & Soci... Read more

11 Dec 2018

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Freedom in Moderation: Platforms, Press, and the Public

Freedom in Moderation: Platforms, Press, and the Public

Data & Society welcomes Mike Ananny and Tarleton Gillespie for a conversation with Kate Klonick about the underlying... Read more

3 Oct 2018

41mins

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Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

Journalist Sarah Kessler discusses her new book "Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work." Kessler shares her ... Read more

25 Sep 2018

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Memes to Movements

Memes to Movements

An Xiao Mina presents a global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda... Read more

16 Jan 2019

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Why Now is the Time for Racial Literacy in Tech

Why Now is the Time for Racial Literacy in Tech

2018-19 Data & Society Fellow Jessie Daniels offers strategies for racial literacy in tech grounded in intellectual ... Read more

9 Jul 2019

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Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy

Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy

Shoshana Zuboff–Surveillance capitalism arrived on the scene with democracy already on the ropes, its early life shelter... Read more

20 Feb 2019

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Dark Patterns in Accessibility Tech

Dark Patterns in Accessibility Tech

Chancey Fleet, a Brooklyn-based accessibility advocate, coordinates technology education programs at the New York Public... Read more

11 Jun 2019

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Cryptoparty as Rent Party

Cryptoparty as Rent Party

2018-19 Data & Society Fellow Jasmine E. McNealy compares Cryptoparties to the goals and aspirations of the famous r... Read more

3 Jul 2019

14mins

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Redefining Benefits for Future Workers

Redefining Benefits for Future Workers

Data & Society welcomes The Workers Lab Co-Founder and CEO Carmen Rojas; Entrepreneur and Author Rachel Schneider; a... Read more

10 Oct 2018

45mins

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Data Science Ethics

Data Science Ethics

Matthew L. Jones speaks about key illiteracies surrounding metadata, the hacking of our court system, and the possibilit... Read more

10 Jul 2018

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Ghost Work

Ghost Work

Anthropologist Mary L. Gray shares her latest book, "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global U... Read more

14 May 2019

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Alternative Data, Credit Scoring, and Financial Freedom

Alternative Data, Credit Scoring, and Financial Freedom

Tamara K. Nopper's talk at Future Perfect explains how credit agencies such as FICO use narratives of credit as personal... Read more

19 Jun 2018

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Algorithms of Oppression

Algorithms of Oppression

In "Algorithms of Oppression", Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal pla... Read more

29 May 2018

40mins

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SCL and Cambridge Analytica: Peering Inside the Propaganda Machine

SCL and Cambridge Analytica: Peering Inside the Propaganda Machine

Cambridge Analytica and their parent company SCL Group hit the headlines recently when, after their work on the Trump ca... Read more

16 May 2018

45mins

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Real Talk About Fake News

Real Talk About Fake News

Real Talk about Fake News | Nabiha Syed in conversation with Claire Wardle and Joan Donovan: "Fake news” isn’t exactly n... Read more

6 Mar 2018

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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Virginia Eubanks speaks about her most recent book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punis... Read more

24 Jan 2018

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