Watching Our World Unfold
Exploring the events, narratives, and forces shaping our shared world.
Facebook's Content Moderators As Modern Coal Miners
Is Social Media Simply Too Sick And Depraved To Continue?
Ransomware Highlights The Vulnerabilities Of Aging City IT
Could Web Archives Serve As Canonical Online Imagery Archives To Combat Deep Fakes?
The Right To Unplug And Silence The World
Are Smartphone Dashboards Misleading Us?
Our Smart Devices Should Warn Us About Cyberattacks And Data Reuse
Fighting Deep Fakes Through Cellular Verification
Do Instagram's Ads Reinforce Harmful Stereotypes?
App And Device Development Today Is About Data Collection
Is Social Media's Toxicity Because Of The Web's Shift From Enlightenment To Entertainment?
Are Behaviorally Targeted And Interest-Based Ads Really As Powerful As We Claim?
Much Of Our Government Digital Surveillance Is Outsourced To Private Companies
The Importance Of Canary Ads For Social Media Analytics
Sometimes Data Science Is Not About Giving Answers Its About Asking Better Questions
Data Scientists Need To Get Better About Communicating Uncertainty And Risk In Their Results
Our Smart Technologies Will Increasingly Report Us To Law Enforcement
Why Is Addictive Social Media Bad While Addictive Streaming Movie Platforms Are Good?