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J. Nathan Matias organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. A Guatemalan American, Matias is an assistant professor in Cornell University’s Department of Communication. He is […]
The next frontier in gender rights is inside databases.
In-person final exams were canceled for thousands of students this spring, so computers stepped in — to disastrous effect.
After some initial fascination with the concept, there now appears to be more skepticism than support for the idea that tools like Twitter and Facebook are
Critiques how the Internet, social media, and the digital network change users’ understanding of the world
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be analyzed as an instance where the Internet has strengthened the power of political actors to create disinformation. But it is no […]
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to “connect” through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data […]
Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon […]
A talk and discussion with Meredith Broussard, Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and author of the award-winning book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT, 2018). Critical AI’s […]
Meredith Broussard is a data journalist and an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand […]
Joan Donovan is a leading public scholar and disinformation researcher, specializing in media manipulation, political movements, critical internet studies, and online extremism. She is the research director of the Harvard […]