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Overview: From the news stories we read to accessing information about our personal health, our everyday lives are shaped by technology. Indeed, technology creates new forms of positive connection and […]
Journalist Lam Thuy Vo examines how the demise of local news and the rise of neighborhood platforms may be contributing to the next moral panic over crime.
The evening the Derek Chauvin verdict was announced on April 19, 2021, a young, multiracial group of anti-gentrification protestors marched down Vanderbilt Avenue in brownstone Brooklyn. The surrounding neighborhood, like […]
Jordan Kraemer is a media anthropologist and ethnographer with expertise studying digital platforms, social inequalities, gender, and urban life. She currently leads tech policy research at ADL’s Center for Technology […]
Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with the following opening paragraph: The construct of “learning […]
By Stephen MarcheAs a bevy of classic Hollywood movies has shown, truck driving is an occupation intertwined with American ideals of freedom and machismo. But technology is threatening the trucker’s traditional independence. […]
By David ZipperThis report summarizes the findings of a one-year study of online targeted advertisements. It highlights important questions and considerations regarding how online targeted ads uphold, produce, and recreate racially discriminatory […]
By Matthew Bui, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Charlton McilwainPEOPLE’S GUIDE TO FINDING ALGORITHMIC BIAS By all people, for all people, regardless of technical background Source: A People’s Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias — Center for Critical Race + […]
By Center for Critical Race + Digital StudiesContent warning: This story contains description of extreme and disturbing violence, suicide, child abuse and cruelty to animals. Luis, a 28-year-old student from Colombia, works through the night moderating […]
By Niamh Mcintyre, rosie Bradbury, Billy PerrigoBefore you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements As another election season draws to a close, […]
By Jon KeeganIn the hype of A.I., we are observing a world where States are increasingly adopting algorithmic decision-making systems altogether with narratives that portray them as a magic wand to “solve” […]
By Joana Varon, Paz Pena