Job alert: We are seeking a highly strategic, visionary, dynamic, and creative individual to serve as Data & Society’s chief development officer (CDO). This is a new position for the organization, intended to scale our already robust development and fundraising efforts. As a key member of the senior leadership team, the CDO will play a pivotal role in shaping D&S’s future. Learn more about the position and apply. https://lnkd.in/eJC2SzvU
Data & Society Research Institute
Non-profit Organizations
Data & Society studies the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.
About us
The Data & Society Research Institute is a New York City-based think/do tank dedicated to addressing social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues that are emerging because of data-centric technological development. Data & Society provides a space for researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy creators, journalists, geeks, and public intellectuals to gather, debate, and engage one another on the key issues introduced by the increasing availability of data in society. Data & Society hosts events, does directed research, creates policy frameworks, and builds demonstration projects to grapple with the challenges and opportunities presented by an ever-increasing amount of available information.
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http://www.datasociety.net/
External link for Data & Society Research Institute
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- sociology, big data, ethics, and research
Employees at Data & Society Research Institute
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Mary Madden
Adjunct Faculty, Communication, Culture & Technology Program at Georgetown University; Senior Research Advisor, Common Sense Media; Affiliate, Data &…
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Alice Marwick
Director of Research, Data & Society Research Institute
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Raina Kumra
Don't try to put me in a box. Working on something stealthy and healthy. 🥬🥕🌶
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Former White House Tech advisor/Thinks about tech responsibility/computational philosopher/Bias Detective/
Updates
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Thinking like a sociotechnical researcher means recognizing that every technical system represents a set of choices — and paying attention to how those choices are made. As D&S Senior Researcher Ranjit Singh explains, that's something we can all do. https://lnkd.in/eke-6qcV
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New! On Points, Associate Director of Research Patrick Davison, Research Program Manager Siera Dissmore, and Research Editor Kiara Childs, PhD take a look at our researchers’ peer-reviewed work in journals, books, and conferences over the past academic year, broadly concentrated across AI, infrastructure, and labor. https://lnkd.in/ehq3pPgh
Contributions to the Field
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Co-Founder and CEO at TechEquity; Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy (Dutton, March 2025)
We're hiring for a very exciting role. Want to be at the center of negotiating the rules that will govern the future of AI, and ensure AI works for people and not just companies? Come join us!
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Stanford University, Communication. Ethnography, algorithms, and organizations. Now all things influencers.
Bay Area people! I'm very excited to announce the Tech, Culture, and Power Speaker Series. We have an amazing list of speakers, and we start this Thursday at 4pm with Mara Mills (NYU). RSVP and info here: https://lnkd.in/gxAr-kca
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Mara Mills - Stanford PACS
https://pacscenter.stanford.edu
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Leading the Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab at Data & Society Research Institute | Saving tech from itself
Thrilled to say that I am the PI of a NSF ReDDDoT planning grant to support forming a community of practice around sociotechnical evaluations of AI’s environmental impacts. Using participatory methods, AIMLab at Data & Society Research Institute and co-PIs Dr. Mar Hicks and Dr. Jess Reia 何杰茜 at UVA School of Data Science will engage communities that are most impacted by AI’s material infrastructures (e.g. data centers) to ensure that evaluations of AI’s environmental impacts go beyond quantitative measurements of carbon and water costs to include downstream human rights impacts
NSF and philanthropic partners invest more than $18M to prioritize ethical and societal considerations in the creation of emerging technologies
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What a joy it was to join Data & Society Research Institute's 10th anniversary last week! I can't believe it's been ten years since I was sitting in Berlin, saw the launch of Data & Society online, and thought to myself: I absolutely *must* spend some time there. I'm so grateful that came true and even more grateful to be able to catch up in person with so many people I hadn't seen since my fellowship year of 2016/2017. So much has happened! My biggest, hopeful takeaway: echoing what AX Mina said in their thoughts about the event, it really does feel like we're moving more towards a level of proactivity in shaping the role of technology in society, from a general level of harm reduction and reactivity over the past years. I'm often reminded of the forward thinking conference, Future Perfect, that Ingrid Burrington hosted at D&S in 2017 (!) exploring the use, significance, and discontents of speculative design, narrative, and world-building in technology, policy, and culture. That conference introduced me to so much that I still think about today – like the incredibly close relationship between corporate/Big Tech and Hollywood in shaping public narratives of tech *cough, Minority Report* – and much more. World-building, speculative fiction, collective imagination, and futuring work, are all things that I see far more regularly now in the tech and digital space, and I'm so here for it. Another call back to 2017 was the topic of my talk, too: bridge-building across different movements, which is also what I looked at during my fellowship at D&S. I'll share more online soon, but that original interest has prompted my new vein of work, thinking about how to do this kind of cross-movement work in a more scaled way. I will say, though: it felt sickening to be talking about governance and technology, in the same city where Netanyahu was addressing the UN General Assembly with impunity, even while the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for him, for crimes against humanity. We saw very clearly the materiality and scope of how technology can be used as sites of violence and war, with the explosions in Lebanon the same week. For me, it was a peak example of how global governance mechanisms are failing miserably at their jobs – how society's commitment to the military industrial complex comes above all, even thousands of human lives – and of the deep-seated systemic racism within our societies. Links to many interesting things I came across at that event, in the comments. 📸: Subha Wijesiriwardena <3
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We’re excited to welcome Data & Society’s very first research and reference librarian, Kathleen Burlingame! https://lnkd.in/eWrzxZAN
Kathleen Burlingame
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Last week, we gathered in Brooklyn, New York to mark Data & Society’s 10th anniversary! It was so wonderful to celebrate with our amazing network of alumni, friends, and supporters as we looked back on our first decade and imagined the next ten years and beyond. On stage, Executive Director Janet Haven, Founder danah boyd, and Board President Charlton McIlwain reflected on creating a field and building the future. Our expert panel of Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Alondra Nelson, John Palfrey, and Felicia Wong weighed the current state of research and policy while Xiaowei R. Wang, PhD, Ranjit Singh, Zara Rahman, and Michelle Miller delivered lightning talks that considered how the choices we make today will shape our collective future. Stay tuned for video of the full event. And a huge thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online, and to all our supporters who made this special evening possible! Photos by Samantha Isom.
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We’re so excited that D&S’s Tamara Kneese, Ph.D. is the principal investigator of a new NSF planning grant — with co-PIs Mar Hicks and Jess Reia 何杰茜 at University of Virginia — working to provide a proof-of-concept for effectively measuring, reporting, and mitigating the broad spectrum of sociotechnical environmental impacts connected to AI, with an emphasis on communities’ needs and concerns. Building on the participatory approach of D&S’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab, this work will also include D&S researchers Jacob Metcalf, Meg Young, PhD, and Briana Vecchione, PhD. If you’re interested in this work and would like to collaborate, get in touch! https://lnkd.in/gQ2xBbtf
NSF and philanthropic partners invest more than $18M to prioritize ethical and societal considerations in the creation of emerging technologies
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