Why America is Self-Segregating

The United States has always been a diverse but segregated country. This has shaped American politics…

Did Media Literacy Backfire?

Update: On March 9, 2018, I gave a talk expanding on my ideas in this post after a year of…

Hacking the Attention Economy

For most non-technical folks, “hacking” evokes the notion of using sophisticated technical skills to break…

Your Data is Being Manipulated

The following are remarks by Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd for her keynote at the 2017…

Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear

Fake news is too big and messy to solve with…

Are There Limits to Online Free Speech ?

When technologists defend free speech above all other values, they play directly into the hands of white nationalists.

When Good Intentions Backfire

… And Why We Need a Hacker Mindset

Toward Accountability

Data, Fairness, Algorithms, Consequences

How do you deal with a problem like “fake news?”

What’s Propaganda Got To Do With It?

Calling out news — whether real or fake — as propaganda expresses anxieties over media power, but is it helping us a get a grip on the media landscape?