✨ Some news ✨ We've hired the inaugural Director for our growing @Cornell_Tech Public Interest Tech (PiTech) Initiative! Please join us in welcoming Małgosia Rejniak

If you're using Contextual Integrity in your work, we want to hear from you. Don't forget to register your intent/abstract on June 17! 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 All deadlines are AoE Register an intent/abstract: June 17 Submissions Due: June 24

New from DLI's Thomas Gilbert (@sociotiose) and Nathaniel Lubin in MIT Technology Review: When content moderation alone can't clean up social media, policy frameworks can help tackle the root of the problem. Read more: technologyreview.com/2022/08/09/105…

📣Registration is now open! Join us in NYC for a a jam-packed and diverse program: privaci.info/symposium/2022…

Today we're thrilled to welcome Jenny Fiemotongha to the DLI as a Visiting Scholar. At Cornell Tech she'll work on how digital inclusion and the ways automation impacts those living in low-income households. Get in touch if you're interested in collaborating! dli.tech.cornell.edu/members/Kennedy

Registration is still open for the 4th Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity! On Sept 22-23, join our diverse community of practice as we discuss new ways to use CI to think about privacy. Learn more and register: privaci.info/symposium/2022…

If you're at UbiComp this year, catch this talk by DLI Doctoral Fellow Dan Adler!

We are off! Session #1 CI Theory, Applications, and Case Studies, chaired by @HNissenbaum!!! #CI_sympoisum22 Digital Life Initiative @ Cornell Tech

Applications are open for the 2023 class of DLI Postdoctoral Fellows! We're looking for researchers from across disciplines to join us at Cornell Tech to investigate ethics, politics, and quality of life in digital societies. Learn more & apply: dli.tech.cornell.edu/postdocs

Just gave a talk to the legendary @HNissenbaum’s Digital Life Initiative @ Cornell Tech , including some of my favourite early career folks—@Elibietti @sociotiose Meg Young and others. Superb group, great questions, just a great (flying) visit. Will have to stay longer next time… Now to Ithaca!

We're thrilled to have you join us, Corin (corin.bsky.social)! A warm welcome to DLI! 😀

Big congrats to DLI Associate Michael Byrne and DLI Affiliate Faculty @[email protected] for this dynamic collaboration with Ballet Hispánico and Four Freedoms Park Conservancy on the intersections of dance, drones and robotics!

Huge congrats to DLI Postdoc @Elibietti on her appointment as Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, starting July 2023! We're thrilled for you!👏

Excited to present some of our work on validating and implementing data-driven mental health measurement tools at the Digital Life Initiative @ Cornell Tech seminar tomorrow, 1PM ET! DM me if you’re interested in Zoom-ing in. dli.tech.cornell.edu/seminars/Menta…

In a 📢new paper📢 forthcoming at #FAccT2023 with Tom Gilbert (@sociotiose) and Helen Nissenbaum (@HNissenbaum), we focus on optimization: a paradigm used to approach and guide decisions. (🧵1/7)

In their compelling article for The Atlantic, DLI's Thomas Krendl Gilbert (@sociotiose) and Nathaniel Lubin posit that "the better way to understand the internet is to compare it to a much older infrastructure problem: citywide sanitation systems."

Michael Byrne, Creative Lead for Tech, Arts & Culture at Cornell Tech, has been announced as a 2023-24 Dance Research Fellow by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Congratulations, Michael! 🎉 on.nypl.org/3JtUGS8 The Library for Performing Arts Cornell University #Art #Dance #CornellTech

Don't forget to register for next month's Annual Symposium on Contextual Integrity, hosted this year by York University, Canada, Sept 21-22, 2023 privaci.info/symposium/2023…

Huge congrats to DLI Director @HNissenbaum on being named the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor at Cornell Tech! ⭐️

NEW "Optimizing for What?" ESSAY: Algorithmic Displacement of Social Trust by Ben Laufer & Helen Nissenbaum Cornell Tech. They outline existential threats posed by what they call "problematic" algorithmic amplification, and the processes these inform. knightcolumbia.org/content/algori…