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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems

Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
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Facial recognition software is biased towards white men, researcher finds

New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition techn…
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Five tools to rebuild trust in media

Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online
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Bitcoin’s rise in African markets is driven by an old Russian ponzi scheme

“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 …
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#MeToo Campaign Showed That Misogyny is a Deeply Cultural Issue. Here’s Why It Was Sorely Needed

Shifting the narrative away from the issue being purely a law and order problem
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Feminist data visualization with Catherine D’Ignazio

We have Catherine D’Ignazio on the show this week to talk about feminist data visualization. Catherine is Assistant Professo…
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Esra’a Al Shafei—"Self-censorship is a massive part of my everyday struggle. There’s so much I want to say that I just can’t."

Esra’a Al Shafei is the Founder and Director of Majal, a nonprofit that helps build communities and digital platforms that celebr…
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Defining Civic Media

Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman talks about activism, technology and the future of the digital ecosystem.
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A new program wants to help more people in news orgs — beyond journalists — get literate with data

News organizations these days are spending a lot of time and energy making sure that data plays a central role in their newsrooms. But fewe…
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The battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a media controversy online and off-line

Graeff, Erhardt, Stempeck, Matt, & Zuckerman, Ethan. 2014 ‘The Battle for “Trayvon Martin”: Mapping a Media Controversy Online and Off-line.’ First Monday, 19, no. 2.
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Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election

Graeff, Erhardt. 2015. ‘Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election.’ Civic Media Project.
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Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement

Graeff, Erhardt. 2016. ‘Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement.’ In Gordon, E. & Mihailidis, P., eds., Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 137–146.
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Youth Digital Activism

Graeff, Erhardt. 2016. ‘Youth Digital Activism.’ In Youth Civic Engagement: United Nations World Youth Report. New York, NY: United Nations, pp. 95–107.
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Whose Lives Matter in the News?

Since the killing of Michael Brown, the Black Lives Matter movement has organized on social media to draw attention to the deaths of unarme…
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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Open Gender Tracker

Open Gender Tracker is a suite of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy for newsrooms and media monitors to collect metrics and gain…
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Readersourcing

The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-source…
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EncuestaCDMX

Everyone in the city is an expert on their own experience of that city. So how might we integrate new forms of citizen input into the plann…
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Global Brands

Every country has a brand, negative or positive, and that brand is mediated in part by its global press coverage. We are measuring and rank…
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