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Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like "black people ruin neighborhoods," then allowed the campaign to go live.

Slate placed an ad targeting people interested in “killing haji,” “ku-klux-klan,”  and more.

After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.

The Paradox of Tolerance says that a tolerant society should be intolerant of one thing: intolerance itself. This is because if a tolerant society allows intolerance to take over, it will destroy t…

Artificial intelligence is becoming a greater part of our daily lives, but the technologies can contain dangerous biases and assumptions—and we're only beginning to understand the consequences.

Automated systems that watch online chats and flag racist, sexist and bullying behavior could help curtail internet abuse.

Copyright law is the primary means by which society preserves and protects valued cultural heritage. There is a clear correlation between that which is protected and that which is valued by society for the continued enjoyment of future generations. However, this truth becomes troubling when it is considered that modern copyright continues to espouse antiquated ideals of acceptable cultural production, to the exclusion of the cultural property of many historically marginalized people groups. This article takes a critical look at copyright law to deconstruct the ways in which historical values and assumptions continue to color the modern protection of cultural creation, thereby confining cultural expression and barring protection to the cultural work of the marginalized.

In my last post I mentioned three caveats that I wanted to add to Miriam Posner's keynote address to the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, and I discussed the fact that the categories we use to organize our lived experience are slippery and problematic and just as reified as the ideological ca

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating our daily lives, with applications that curate your phone pics, manage your email, and translate text from any language into another. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft are all heavily researching how to integrate AI into their major services. Soon you’ll likely interact…

On doxing.

There have been an increased number of public attacks on underrepresented academics for their education and activism on social media. The term “activist academic” describes the longstan…

It has been a busy season for professors who have the nerve to engage in the public as Nick Kristof once intoned my tribe to do. Of course, as I said at the time he wrote that tripe, Kristof did no…

While archives and archivists have long liked to believe that we are neutral in the process of building collections, we know this is not…