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QAnon and the Emergence of the Unreal - 2 novembre 2020
Ethan Zuckerman delves into how the conspiracist community surrounding QAnon represents a hazardous new form of participatory civics and digital storytelling.
The Grass Valley Charter School in northern California teaches 500 students from kindergarten to eighth grade using principles from Outward Bound and other (...)
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The Good Drone - 15 septembre 2020
How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.
Drones are famous for doing bad things : weaponized, they implement remote-control war ; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties and violate privacy. In The Good Drone, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick (...)
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Too Smart - Jathan Sadowski - 30 juin 2020
How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
Who benefits from smart technology ? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity ?
Smart technology is everywhere : smart umbrellas that light up when rain is in the (...)
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Data Feminism - 17 juin 2020
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This (...)
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Programmed Inequality - 7 mai 2020
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers : women.
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but (...)
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Too Smart - 17 décembre 2019
How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
Who benefits from smart technology ? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity ?
Smart technology is everywhere : smart umbrellas that light up when rain is in the (...)
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Atlas of Inequality - 9 avril 2019
Economic inequality isn’t just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurants, stores, and other places we visit in cities are all unequal in their own way.
The Atlas of Inequality shows the income inequality of people who visit different places in the Boston metro area. It uses aggregated anonymous location data from (...)
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The Spread of True and False Information Online - 9 mars 2018
We investigated the spread of all of the verified news stories"“verified as either true or false"“distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017.
With a data set of roughly 126K stories tweeted by around 3M people over 4.5M times, we classified news as true or false using information from six independent fact-checking (...)
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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems - 12 février 2018
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
Three commercially released facial-analysis programs from major technology companies demonstrate both skin-type and gender biases, according to a new paper researchers from MIT and (...)
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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems - 11 février 2018
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
Three commercially released facial-analysis programs from major technology companies demonstrate both skin-type and gender biases, according to a new paper researchers from MIT and (...)
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RF-Capture : Capturing the Human Figure Through a Wall - 28 octobre 2015
RF-Capture is a device that captures a human figure through walls and occlusions. It transmits wireless signals and reconstructs a human figure by analyzing the signals’ reflections. RF-Capture does not require the person to wear any sensor, and its transmitted power is 10,000 times lower than that of a standard (...)
