This article narrates how teams of computer scientists used machine learning to identify the individuals behind the viral QAnon conspiracy theory. The article describes how researchers used software that broke …
This article from The New Yorker dives into the longstanding content moderation troubles at Facebook. At heart is the difficulty of balancing a platform that values “free speech,” on the …
The run-up to the U.S. presidential election is also speeding up the arrival of a tipping point for digital fakery in politics, Axios’ Ashley Gold reports. As the election, a …
This lucidly written essay shuttles between the emergence of the Gutenberg press and the rise of Facebook, compelling a reflection on the enduring and contradictory ways in which print and …
In April of 2019, the NY Times intiated The Privacy Project, an series dedicated to exploring privacy issues in a digital world. Everything written for this series can be found …
I have been at Graduate Center for seven years. Not, in the grand scheme of things all that long, but sometimes I think I know a little bit too much …
Much as we like our bland and sunless digital lab just the way it is, we recognize that digital culture is best cultivated when there are bright gadgets and curious new takes on furniture scattered about. Martini glasses could probably help too.
A few weeks ago, the conversation heated up during an ITP core course on the history, theory and practice of interactive media. We were ping-ponging the usual social and political concerns …
Erin Glass is a doctoral student in English. She is interested in the way science and literature continually borrow from, impose upon and subtly influence one another. After receiving a …
ASHP recently won a teacher mastery award and funding for Who Built America? Badges for Teaching Disciplinary Literacy in History, from the Digital Media and Learning Competition. The competition is …
