danah boyd
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sociotechnical researcher | Microsoft Research, Georgetown, Data & Society | [email protected] | (@[email protected]) | https://t.co/WPud3CWY4P
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http://www.danah.org/ 13-07-2006 21:27:23
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New paper by Janet is cyberlyra at hachyderm.io and I in a Sociologica special issue on failure looks at how constraining time/money in public sector orgs like NASA and the Census Bureau can introduce risk. In short, resource binds can trigger legitimacy crises. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/1…
For those interested in AI, this is a fantastic primer by AI Now Institute on the infrastructure needed to make AI work. Think: chips and compute plus the geopolitics, institutions, markets, and politics that make it all happen. ainowinstitute.org/publication/po…
Event coming on October 4 at the BoulderPublicLibrary:
'Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet,' a conversation with two brilliant media scholars, Ted Striphas and danah boyd
Learn more and spread the word: calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/11249625
This week on Reimagining the Internet: danah boyd (danah boyd). We start efforts to 'protect' kids from the internet, make our way to the public sphere, cyberutopianism and why the census underlies all of US politics and history. It's a ride. publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/86-dan…
I am soooo sad that I had to cancel my #ASA2023 attendance. Boooo. Damn thee Covid. Luckily my amazing collaborators - Chuncheng Liu cliu.bsky.social and Jayshree Sarathy - will be presenting our work. Please go cheer them on for me!!
As always, danah boyd has the take from left field that also feels far more true than the hurried takes that keep coming out.
I'm on the board for Data & Society - one of THE BEST organizations thinking through the implications of our collisions between tech and society. And I wanted to give a shout out the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab that they've just started (datasociety.net/algorithmic-im…). 1/n