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What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future
(Presented at Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Cambridge, May 5, 2013)Direct interactions between humans and bots generally conjure up images from science fiction of Terminator robots or artificial intelligence gone rogue, like 2001's HAL or The Matrix. In reality, AI is still far from much ... -
Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, 2013–2016
(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 ...