Advancing AI safety requires a sociotechnical approach to AI governance. To understand why, check out this reading list by Senior Policy Analyst Serena Oduro. https://lnkd.in/gtSuct2D
Data & Society Research Institute
Non-profit Organizations
New York, NY 19,096 followers
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
- Type
- 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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New! Tamara K. Nopper’s report explores how financial wellness programs subject workers to vast amounts of data collection and financial health surveillance, asking: who ultimately benefits from framing financial status as a matter of health? https://lnkd.in/guAzVfr2
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Job alert! We’re looking for a creative, collaborative senior designer to oversee Data & Society’s visual presence on our website, social media, and through all publications and communications products. Learn more and apply now! https://lnkd.in/dXTcivDA
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Join us today at 1 p.m. ET!
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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A big welcome to cultural anthropologist Anuli Akanegbu, PhD as she joins our Labor Futures team! Anuli will lead research on labor, race and tech, and we're so excited for her to be part of the D&S community. https://lnkd.in/dd8av83m
Anuli Akanegbu
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Thursday’s event is going to be a good one — RSVP now and don’t miss it!
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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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
Why You Should Apply to Be Our First Research and Reference Librarian
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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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Data & Society Research Institute reposted this
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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Data & Society Research Institute reposted this
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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