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Dr. Michelle Ferrier is the founder of TrollBusters.com, a just-in-time service that helps journalists fight online abuse, and has advocated on behalf of journalists worldwide at the United Nations, SXSW, […]
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. is an associate professor at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the College of Media’s Journalism Department (with affiliate appointments in the Communication and Political Science). Her […]
Nabiha Syed is President of The Markup, a nonprofit media organization that investigates how the powerful use technology to reshape society. Before joining The Markup, Nabiha was vice president and […]
Dr. Wilneida Negrón specializes in developing and scaling new models for people-centered structural and systemic change in the technology sector, capital markets/finance, and labor markets. She most recently worked at […]
Catherine Knight Steele is an educator, researcher, award-winning author, and sought-after speaker specializing in race and media, with a particular emphasis on Black discourse, culture, technology, and social media. As […]
Desmond Upton Patton, associate dean for Innovation and Academic Affairs, founding director of the SAFE Lab and codirector of the Justice, Equity and Technology (JET) Studio at Columbia School of […]
In this review of research 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.
Artificial intelligence systems “understand” and shape a lot of what happens in people’s lives. AI applications “speak” to people and answer questions when the name of a digital voice assistant […]
By Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson and Emily A. VogelsRecent advances in the capability of digital information technologies—particularly due to advances in artificial intelligence—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use. However, this debate has often […]
Organized by Gabriella Coleman (Harvard University), Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University), and Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) Hacktivism is on the rise, and there’s a new, notable crew on the block: […]
Maybe it’s a cliché—I think I’ve used it myself—to say that scientists’ and philosophers’ explanations for how the brain works tend to metaphorically track the most advanced technology of their […]
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