We’re hiring for a brand new position at Data & Society: a research and reference librarian. Since we’ve never before had a librarian as part of our research team, Associate Director of Research Patrick Davison took some time to reflect on why we’re hiring one now, and why we’ve proposed to study the problem of archiving, organizing, and circulating independent social science research. Learn more and apply! https://lnkd.in/eJTryXuB
Data & Society Research Institute
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Data & Society studies the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.
About us
The Data & Society Research Institute is a New York City-based think/do tank dedicated to addressing social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues that are emerging because of data-centric technological development. Data & Society provides a space for researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy creators, journalists, geeks, and public intellectuals to gather, debate, and engage one another on the key issues introduced by the increasing availability of data in society. Data & Society hosts events, does directed research, creates policy frameworks, and builds demonstration projects to grapple with the challenges and opportunities presented by an ever-increasing amount of available information.
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http://www.datasociety.net/
External link for Data & Society Research Institute
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- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- sociology, big data, ethics, and research
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36 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011, US
Employees at Data & Society Research Institute
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Mary Madden
Adjunct Faculty, Communication, Culture & Technology Program at Georgetown University; Senior Research Advisor, Common Sense Media; Affiliate, Data &…
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Raina Kumra
Don't try to put me in a box. Working on something stealthy and healthy. 🥬🥕🌶
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Former White House Tech advisor/Thinks about tech responsibility/computational philosopher/Bias Detective/
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Claudia Perlich
Updates
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In this new report, D&S Research Analyst Joan Mukogosi considers a question often overlooked when considering solutions to the Black maternal health crisis: How might digital technologies meant to improve health outcomes for Black birthing people be producing new forms of harm? In the US, Black birthing people face disproportionately high rates of pregnancy-related deaths. At the same time, many of the most prominent interventions in birth-related care rely on forms of intensified data collection. This reliance on data comes with considerable risks, including its incorporation into carceral systems that monitor, constrain, and discipline Black individuals — a risk exacerbated by a post-Dobbs climate of increasingly restrictive reproductive health policies. In this context, Establishing Vigilant Care puts the risks of digital health technologies at the forefront of considerations about where, how, and by whom maternity care is delivered to Black birthing people. Read the full report. https://lnkd.in/e4bngqm8
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Still hiring for a researcher (ideally aspiring PhD students) interested in mixed-methods research about digital platforms, precarious work, and sustainable development. New link here: https://lnkd.in/evxxqRT7
Mack Institute Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
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In the face of company obstruction of research, Congressional inaction on basic governance of tech, and disagreements in the research community over social media's role in kids' mental health, Surgeon General Murthy last week called for warning labels on social media sites. Dr. J. Nathan Matias and I write in Tech Policy Press about how the lack of independent research and hard accountability have brought us to this point.
Tech companies — whether or not they are the main cause of this country’s mental health woes — are actively obstructing the search for solutions, argue the Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell University's Dr. J. Nathan Matias and Data & Society Research Institute's Janet Haven. https://lnkd.in/gCu32g-v
Social Media Warnings Alone Can't Solve the Youth Mental Health Crisis | TechPolicy.Press
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On July 18 at 1 p.m. ET, D&S Research Analyst Joan Mukogosi (author of the forthcoming report Establishing Vigilant Care: Data Infrastructures and the Black Birthing Experience) will speak with Mary E. Fleming, MD, MPH, FACOG and Ijeoma Uche, MPH about the decline of Black maternal health amid advancements in clinical technologies, and the implications of an increasingly data-driven response to the Black maternal health crisis. Learn more and RSVP to join us online: https://lnkd.in/etjYTepw
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Leading the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab at Data & Society Research Institute | Saving tech from itself
Happy to be quoted in this article that pulls no punches: “The tech giant and its partners say they expect to harness fusion by 2028, an audacious claim that bolsters their promises to transition to green energy but distracts from current reality. In fact, the voracious electricity consumption of artificial intelligence is driving an expansion of fossil fuel use — including delaying the retirement of some coal-fired plants” https://lnkd.in/g73HJDAa
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
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As long as tech companies continue to inhibit research on any terms but their own, we can't know the real impact social media platforms have on kids’ mental health, write D&S Executive Director Janet Haven and J. Nathan Matias in Tech Policy Press. Without independent research, social media warning labels — as US Surgeon General Murthy called for last week — simply won’t cut it. “It’s no secret that tech companies cannot and will not govern themselves to society’s benefit. In a situation like this, the government needs to govern, and ensure safety for all — particularly kids. It’s essential that they do so from a robust evidence base, one that informs meaningful solutions and accountability for harms.” https://lnkd.in/duT4GBNN
Social Media Warnings Alone Can't Solve the Youth Mental Health Crisis | TechPolicy.Press
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The explosive rise of generative AI is a double-edged sword: huge potential, but also ethical landmines. We hosted a global discussion with leading AI thinkers to navigate this complex landscape. Head over to this article to read key takeaways and insights from the event on balancing risks and benefits of GenAI, the impact on the Global South, environment and creative industries, and power dynamics and control of AI technologies. #GenerativeAI #Policy #QueenMary Public Policy Programme || The Alan Turing Institute Harvard Data Science Initiative
Queen Mary hosts global discussion on AI policy
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Which existing laws can be applied to AI? How should they be applied to new AI uses? The experts have answers. Join us and Governing for Impact tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET for a discussion with Dr. Alondra Nelson and CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, and a panel on AI. https://lnkd.in/e_7GwXUm
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BTW: Episode 7 of Technically Optimistic is available now! This week EC’s Raffi Krikorian and special guests explore tech in the global south, more specifically India. They delve into the pros and cons of the massive tech boom that created a mass amount of jobs but also brought along social issues, including poverty, oppression of women, and class stratification. Guests include caste and technology scholar Murali Shanmugavelan; anthropologist Sareeta Amrute; Manu Chopra, CEO of Karya; Pratik Rajurkar, educator and co-founder of Polymath AI; and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, Amandeep Singh Gill. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧