Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more

A new paper by danah boyd published in Sociologica! Read more

Our BCNM alumni are helping to steer one of the most important new media museums in the world. Read more

What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more

This panel seeks to examine the role that institutional arrangements play in shaping science and technology by interrogating what happens when institutions are threatened or collapse. Read more

In this paper, alum danah boyd and Maria P. Agnel unpack the theory of change at the center of the “duty of care." Read more

Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society awarded alum danah boyd its prestigious Morrison Prize and lecture. Read more

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) encourages the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. Read more

Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more

danah boyd discusses "Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?" Read more

"I approach technology as a tool and an intervention. Certain futures are made easier because of technology, and certain futures get more complicated. We can make bets about the probabilities of certain futures, but we cannot see the future. We can only introduce other interventions." Read more

The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more

Hear alum danah boyd speak about data and truth on Gnovis with Huseyn Panahov. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022!  Read more

Our alum danah boyd published an article in the Harvard Data Science Review with Jayshree Sarathy.

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Women in AI Ethics recognizes BCNM faculty and alumni in their list of honors, including Jenna Burrell, Morgan Ames, danah boyd, and Michelle Carney! Read more

Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was the keynote speaker at IEEE VIS 2021. Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd has joined Georgetown University for the year as a distinguished visiting professor. Read more

danah boyd recently published an article discussing creating or knitting a healthy social fabric that relies on real connections. Read more

BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure."  Read more

danah boyd & Gail De Kosnik were featured in an article from the Pew Research Center and Elon University on Imagining the Internet, predicting how technology, climate change, and politics will effect a post-Covid-19 world. Read more

danah boyd recently wrote an article on Linkedin titled "The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO." Read more

danah boyd recently wrote a paper titled "Philanthropy’s Techno-Solutionism Problem" for the Knight Foundation. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more

The Commission's final report was recently released, recommending ways to "help the nation emerge as a more resilient democracy by 2026." Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more

danah boyd investigates the US Census Bureau's approach to "differential privacy" and its implications for data products. Read more

Alum danah boyd recently released a Data & Society report titled "Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited" in collaboration with Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft. Read more

CNET's list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years includes alum, Data & Society founder, danah boyd. Read more

Alum danah boyd with Emmanuel Moss and Jacob Metcalf published on corporate logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of ethics. Read more

A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

Is media silence as powerful in shaping public discussion as deliberate rhetoric? If so, do editorial boards need to strategically amplify certain speech? Read more

Alum danah boyd and Dan Bouk are running an incredible workshop at Data & Society. Application deadline: November 25, 2019. Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar'  Read more