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Dorothy R. Santos is a Filipino American storyteller, poet, artist, and scholar, and she is an assistant teaching professor in the art department and Principal Founding Faculty for Creative Technologies […]
Through an examination of the literature, Kadija Ferryman synthesizes the exponential growth in health data and health information technologies, especially for marginalized populations, while also addressing common rhetorical and ethical responses to inequities in health technologies.
Amelia Gibson and Rua Williams explore academic scholarship and public discussion around disability access and accessibility and problematize the idea that disabled people truly have access to technology in contexts where they do not control technology.
Within the first week that Austin Correll was driving for Lyft in the fall of 2021, he was sent to pick up passengers at an address that turned out to […]
By Nicole WetsmanAbstract Digital inequality scholarship has consistently found that people from varying societal positions experience digital media in their lives in divergent ways. Therefore, the growing body of research examining the […]
By Moritz Büchi, Eszter HargittaiIn late 2021, the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) launched its AI Bill of Rights initiative to address AI systems that enable and worsen discrimination and privacy risks, […]
By Ridhi Shetty and Hannah Quay-de la ValleeIN MAY 2021, Twitter, a platform notorious for abuse and hot-headedness, rolled out a “prompts” feature that suggests users think twice before sending a tweet. The following month, Facebook announced AI “conflict alerts” for groups, […]
By Will ColdwellThe authors’ results underscore the important role of PADM in understanding Internet users’ trust in and search for HOFN. When people trust HOFN, they may seek more information to implement […]
By Lei Zheng, Jon D. Elhai, Miao Miao, Yu Wang, Yiwen Wang, and Yiqun GanIn this paper, we examine the practice and promises of digital phenotyping. We build on work on the ‘data self’ to focus on a medical domain in which the value […]
By Richard Milne, Alessia Costa, and Natassia Brenman,Sendhil Mullainathan is the Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth. His latest research is on computational medicine—applying machine learning and other data science tools […]
Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work investigates the relationship between technology, race, and health equity. She is the author of Pleasure in […]