The SSRC is an independent, international, nonprofit organization. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.
Watch the Just Tech Platform launch event, featuring remarks from former SSRC president, Alondra Nelson, and a conversation with Ruha Benjamin, Timnit Gebru, and Safiya U. Noble.
In this essay, Egrin Bulut examines the experiences of gig-workers in Turkey during the pandemic, exploring the tensions heightened by a global health crisis for delivery app workers.
Nathan Matias and Lucas Wright survey research to demonstrate the social justice implications of adaptive algorithms and consider how we might effectively assess the impact of human-algorithm feedback.
In this review of literature on “the digital divide,” Roderic Crooks argues that access to computing in education or in any other domain can only meaningfully contribute to equality when minoritized and racialized communities are allowed to pursue their own collective technological goals.
In this essay, Dr. Gil reflects on his career as a Digital Scholarship Librarian – helping faculty and students navigate advanced forms of computation and engineering in order to do their work – and discusses how his role allows him to assist researchers to take more control of their digital production through mobilized scholarship.
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