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The Critical Digital Studies Group is hosting its first guest speaker event with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland).From the Archive to TikTok: Care and Feeding as Praxis in […]
Licensed healthcare professionals on YouTube can now apply to get panels added to their videos that mark them as reliable health information sources, the company said Thursday. They’ll also be […]
By Nicole WetsmanA week before Elon Musk closed his $44 billion Twitter deal, Cassie LaBelle, a writer who is part of a transgender community on Twitter, started a Discord server. “I don’t […]
By Amanda HooverMargaret Mitchell had been working at Google for two years before she realized she needed a break. “I started having regular breakdowns,” says Mitchell, who founded and co-led the company’s […]
By Melissa HeikkiläINFORMED brings together key leaders and experts to engage around the biggest questions at the intersection of technology, media, and democracy. Presented by Knight Foundation, the gathering will be an […]
Join us virtually on December 2nd and 3rd as we celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) with approximately two and a half hours of interactive […]
The doorstep has emerged as the new physical locale of consumption — the threshold at which purchased products become personal property. In this transformation, the porch has become a contested […]
By Aiha Nguyen, Eve ZelicksonLast week, President Joe Biden’s White House published a 73-page document produced by the Office of Science and Technology Policy titled Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: Making Automated […]
By Justin Hendrix, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Alex EnglerOn a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software […]
By Heather Vogell, Haru Coryne, Ryan LittleMy parents don’t know that I spoke to them last night. At first, they sounded distant and tinny, as if they were huddled around a phone in a prison cell. […]
By Charlotte JeePrevious work by PAI’s AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative highlighted the need to better understand AI’s impacts on job quality, including by learning from the workers who experience these impacts […]
By Stephanie Bell