Center for Civic Media

On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.

Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.

The awards recognize, support, and amplify the voices of extraordinary women who are dedicated to improving the lives of other women.

Joy Buolamwini talks with Molly Wood about bias research that’s built into artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology.

Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.

Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.

The segment highlighted Dr. Buolamwini's work on bias in AI.

Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?

Among other experts, Ethan Zuckerman reminisces about human-curated web directories and the mule-powered web browser.

“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.

Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.

Ethan Zuckerman and other experts contextualize the real risks of the mobile internet.

The MIT Media Lab is setting out to reimagine the tired old monthly enterprise with a “period hackathon."

What are the fundamental questions that need to be answered within the next decade so that humanity and technology can grow side by side?

Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.

Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.

Instead of doing one "year in review" post, we invited the Lab community to reflect upon 2018 and what's coming up in 2019.

Joy Buolamwini identifies bias in algorithms and develops practices for accountability during design.

In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.

Establishing—and rewarding—provenance of stories that start with investigative journalism could shift the field for original reporting.

Joy Buolamwini showed facial-recognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color.

J. Nathan Matias and Joy Buolamwini are two of Fast Company's four design heroes.

A.I. systems are shaped by the priorities and prejudices…of the people who design them, a phenomenon that I refer to as "the coded gaze."

"We have to continue to check our systems, because they can fail in unexpected ways."

Social media often goes very wrong. Making it right requires a vision for how social media can help, not harm, society.

A case study implemented by Inioluwa Raji under the guidance of Joy Buolamwini

A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, media scholar and inventor of the pop-up ad, on the original sin of advertising and the web’s lost deca

All people are created equal, but in the eyes of the algorithm, not all faces are just yet.A new study from MIT and Microsoft res…

A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin&n…

New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition techn…

Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.

Real-world biases and artificial intelligence

Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online

“Welcome to the System! Together we will change the world!”These are the words I found scrawled at the bottom of a web page, right next to …

Shifting the narrative away from the issue being purely a law and order problem

We have Catherine D’Ignazio on the show this week to talk about feminist data visualization. Catherine is Assistant Professo…

…We may have helped create the AI monster here in the Hub, but it turns out we’re also the ones fighting to keep it on a leash, with a Just…

Our news is shaped by geographical and cultural proximity, the need for novelty, the frame of our existing narratives and how we value diffe

While Puerto Rico suffers after Hurricane Maria, much of the U.S. media (FiveThirtyEight not excepted) has been occupied with other things:…

With Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple dominating their respective online markets, we plebeians visit fewer sites than we used to an…

“A public social media platform would have the civic mission of providing us a diverse and global view of the world.”