danah boyd is the founder and President of Data & Society, a research institute focused on understanding the role of data-driven technologies in society. She is also a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Visiting Professor at New York University. Her research is focused on addressing social and cultural inequities by understanding the relationship between technology and society. In 2014, she published a monograph on how young people use social media: “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”. Dr. boyd was selected as a 2011 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and is currently an active member. She is a director of the Crisis Text Line and on the board of trustees of theNational Museum of the American Indian. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a well-known blogger (zephoria.org/thoughts) and commentator.
What is Authority in a Networked, Artificially Intelligent World?
Session Description: As algorithms and AI are seamlessly integrated into everything, who (or what) is making the decisions? Are Amazon, Facebook, and Google becoming the de facto authority? What does authority mean anymore? What will replace the old systems that signified authority? The full transcript is also available in PDF form here. Sherman: So for the tech […]
Confronting Net Content Manipulation Head-On
Session Description: Facebook, Google, and Twitter are in the hot seat over how their systems may have been manipulated by foreign actors during the US election. The tech sector needs to recognize how this has become the new security battle and build organizational antibodies in response.
Privacy, Trust and The Future of Digital Relationships
How does culture alter our technology? Two trained anthropologists–one an eminent and longtime student of tech-influenced social systems, the other a senior business journalist–discuss the social, economic and political biases we bake into our systems. How may that affect how people behave? If we’re moving to a world of sensors, analytics, and a consequently altered society, will it be a fair one?
Conferences
Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
Conferences
NYC 16
For four years, the impact of tech and increasing interconnection on the economy and urban revival has shaped the agenda for our annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
