Timnit Gebru, PhD, one of Fortune’s Top 25 Leaders in the world, Delivers Keynote Address for SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021
Timnit Gebru, co-founder of Black in AI, advocate for diversity in the field of technology, and Fortune’s Top 50 Leaders in the World in 2021 delivered the keynote address for SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021.
In a pandemic, what use is Google?
This blog by Sam Gilbert explains how internet search data is being used in responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what search datasets and tools are available to researchers.
Book review: The code: Silicon Valley and the remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara
In The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, Margaret O’Mara provides a new account of the region’s evolution that brings the US government into the story. The book offers a compelling narrative that tracks the key players and events that have underpinned Silicon Valley’s tremendous, but messy, rise, writes Robyn Klingler-Vidra, while also underscoring the gender imbalance and casual misogyny that has been a longstanding characteristic of its culture.
Collecting social media data for research
Human social behavior has rapidly shifted to digital media services, whether Gmail for email, Skype for phone calls, Twitter and Facebook for micro-blogging, or WhatsApp and SMS for private messaging. This digitalization of social life offers researchers an unprecedented world of data with which to study human life and social systems. However, accessing this data has become increasingly difficult.
Can Facebook and Google survive the GDPR?
What the Cambridge Analytica debacle and the resulting U.S. Senate hearing revealed in no uncertain terms is that the U.S. does not have adequate data privacy laws