Dr. Jen Schradie
Sociologist @SciencesPo Paris, PhD @UCBerkeley. How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives @Harvard_Press. Tech & inequality, labor, democracy. Banjo & Yoga hack
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Despite cries of censorship, conservatives dominate social media
GOP-friendly voices far outweigh liberals in driving conversations on hot topics leading up to the election, a POLITICO analysis shows.
Call for 2021-2022 Faculty Fellows: Race and Technology
For the 2021-2022 program, Data & Society is seeking two to three Faculty Fellows whose research projects specifically focus on issues of race and technology.
Poll Supports Biden Banning Corporate Elites From His Administration
Voters would be more likely to support Biden if his staff did not include lobbyists or executives.
Big Data Not Big Enough? How the Digital Divide Leaves People Out - MediaShift
The utopian hype over Big Data is being critiqued on many fronts. After all, it isn’t that new. The Romans and the Nazis amassed huge amounts of data on their populations. And then, of course, there is the creepy, Big Brother aspect. However, one...
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…
Unsung helpers: older adults as a source of digital media support for their peers
(2020). Unsung helpers: older adults as a source of digital media support for their peers. The Communication Review. Ahead of Print.
The election is being fought on social media amid the pandemic
Democrats, Republicans take different strategic paths to fundraise, organize and mobilize on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Dr. Jen Schradie
Neither Trump nor Zuckerburg built the dominant right-wing social media eco-system. It goes deeper. Thousands of hyper-local influencers connected to grassroots groups are often more effective than a political celebrity. Thanks @jswartz for great reporting marketwatch.com/story/the-elec… pic.twitter.com/KrICftalbY
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How Market Design Economists Helped to Engineer a Mass Privatization of Public Resources - Pro Market
In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission conducted a complex two-sided auction to reallocate spectrum from broadcasters to mobile communications companies. The way economists designed the auction included hundreds of millions of profits for...
Dr. Jen Schradie
Fight me on this - but did the Nobel committee really just award a prize to an economist whose model (and actual work) sold off public airwaves to private equity firms, screwing the public in the process?
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Powered by trust on the pandemic, Biden leads by 12 points nationwide: POLL
Nearly 6 in 10 disapprove of how Trump has handled the coronavirus outbreak.
Postdoctoral Program
Social and economic inequality are urgent problems for our society, with implications for a range of outcomes from economic growth and political stability to crime, public health, family wellbeing, and social trust. The Inequality in America...
Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society - Tressie McMillan Cottom, 2020
The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics ...
Journalism faces a crisis in trust. Journalists fall into two very different camps for how to fix it
Plus: Life in a news desert, how journalists forge a digital self on social media, and online harassment of journalists as "mob censorship."
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America’s internet wasn’t prepared for online school
Seven months in, one thing is clear: schools can’t bridge the "digital divide" on their own.
We Declare Judgment on the Sins of the Senate! — Repairers of the Breach
We declare judgment on the sins of the Senate! Join us today at 3:30pm ET/ 12:30pm PT for the biggest Moral Monday Caravans & Digital March on McConnell yet. Inspired by the powerful Moral Monday caravans organized last week by the Kentucky and...
ENDL-3: Unboxing AI. Understanding Artificial Intelligence – ENDL
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Dr. Jen Schradie
Join us Nov 5 & 6
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Unboxing AI: Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Open the black box of artificial intelligence to allow the hidden, neglected & hushed-up aspects of the technological revolution
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