AI systems are tested and evaluated more extensively than ever, but the effects of AI on humanity are still not fully understood, while narratives about our future vacillate between apocalypse and ...

Gregory Narr received his PhD in Sociology from CUNY in 2021. He studies the intersection of technology, sociality, and capitalism from a critical algorithms perspective. His work is informed by queer ...

The Digital Media Project aims to resolve emerging and outstanding problems revealed by recent social and technological change. A simple shift of format – the transition from hard-copy objects like ...

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The value to a community of assessing its Readiness lies in evaluating its unique opportunities and challenges. Most communities will not be uniformly Ready across all evaluation criteria. The result ...

For over a decade, USC Annenberg Associate Professor David Craig has been conducting research about the structural and material conditions that distinguish global, Chinese, and peripheral creator and ...

AI and digital platforms promise a friction-free future, yet the systems taking shape around us depend on hidden human labor, powerful corporate interests, and business models that demand more and ...

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University proudly welcomes an extraordinary cohort of fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The cohort will embrace the three pillars of ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we ...

Regulation and oversight are of little use if they are always playing a chasing game. AI companies have turned regulation into the last line of redress when it should have been the first line of ...

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both ...