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My most recent hex tattoo says “throw away the scabbard”. The full meaning is that when the time comes to fight, you draw your sword and throw the scabbard away. Because you either face a foe you are unlikely to beat, or that you will not be forgiven, or that […]

danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a fellow at the Berkman Center, and director of the Data and Society Institute. danah has been working on the issues associated with “It’s Complicated” for many years. […]

Databases! Apparently they are useful. In a quest to better understand this gap in my knowledge, Rahul, Yu, Joshua, and I sat down. There are so many tools out there. What you invest in learning is important because you don’t know what will still be around, especially the web-based ones. […]

Our Spring 2014 Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu) has begun. This semester, we’re experimenting with a few new pieces: Surveillance theme – all of our partnerships are with partners who are organizing and creating around issues of surveillance Distributed partnerships – partners this semester are not just Boston-based DiscoTech/Hackathon – we’re supporting […]

contributors: Sarah Reilly (Design Action Collective), Salima Hamirani, Jesse Strauss (Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant), Bex Hurwitz (RAD/MIT Center for Civic Media), Mark Burdett (EFF), Emi Kane (Allied Media Projects)orig post date: Oct 2013 UPDATE: Check out Oakland Privacy Group’s post for the latest about the DAC! https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/177/ Surveillance Camera […]