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Senate Testimony

I was in Washington this week providing testimony for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The[...]

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Topics Big Data

Op ed

Our Data, Ourselves

Concentrated in a few hands, big data is a threat to democracy. Social media companies and[...]

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Working paper

Creativity and Critique: Gap Analysis of Support for Critical Research on Big Data

We define big data as large amounts of information, collected about many people, over multiple devices.[...]

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Academic article

Automation, Big Data and Politics: A Research Review

We review the great variety of critical scholarship on algorithms, automation, and big data in areas[...]

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Topics Big Data Governance

Policy EngagementSpeaking

Talk at Data & Society in New York

A video of my talk to the think tank Data & Society in New York. Databites[...]

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Topics Big Data Social Theory

Academic articleData set

Sizing Up Information Societies

When researchers study technology diffusion in a global and comparative manner, they often find that economic[...]

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