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  Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, 2013–2016 

  Zuckerman, Ethan; Matias, J. Nathan; Bhargava, Rahul; Bermejo, Fernando; Ko, Allan (The International Journal of Communication, 2019)

  Media coverage of deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police sharply increased after the high-profile death of Michael Brown. We analyze a novel set of media data to understand reasons for this rise and to ...
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  Gobo: A System for Exploring User Control of Invisible Algorithms in Social Media 

  Bhargava, Rahul; Chung, Anna; Gaikwad, Neil S; Hope, Alexis; Jen, Dennis; e.a. (ACM CSCW '19: Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2019)

  In recent years, there has been an unprecedented growth in content that is shared and presented on social media platforms. Along with this growth, however, there is an increasing concern over the lack of control social ...
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  Creative Data Literacy: A Constructionist Approach to Teaching Information Visualization 

  D'Ignazio, Catherine; Bhargava, Rahul (Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2018)

  Data visualization has rapidly become a standard approach to interrogating and understanding the world around us in domains that extend beyond the technical and scientific to arts, communications and services. In business ...

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