Technology, data and society
During a year of elections, Joram Feitsma and Mark Whitehead examine the evolving relationship between politics and digital technology, with a focus on the risks posed by generative AI's capacity to swiftly create synthetic digital content.…Read more
Check out our curated list of must-read open access books and articles across the social sciences for your summer reading. …Read more
Raph Schlembach, author of 'Spycops', outlines the progress of the long-running Spycops Undercover Policing Inquiry, which is looking at the covert operations commissioned by the police and the secret service over decades. …Read more
As part of the Academics Stand Against Poverty blog series, Georgia van Toorn, Joanna Redden, Lina Dencik, Jess Brand and colleagues challenge Labour to resist the temptation to rely on technological solutions such as AI to tackle the structural problems of poverty and inequality.…Read more
A migrant, a Brit and a robot walk into a bar. Kostas Maronitis and Denny Pencheva, authors of 'Robots and Immigrants', discuss who will get the job. …Read more
On World Oceans Day, Ryan MacNeil discusses the crucial role that the public sector can play in ocean-saving technology. Such innovations must not be left purely to the private sector. …Read more
Lurking, or reading the comments in an online group without writing a comment, is a common practice. But what does it mean to be a lurker? In this podcast Gina Sipley challenges our assumptions about lurking, revealing it to be a complex and valuable form of online engagement.…Read more
Scott Timcke considers the impact of AI systems on democratic politics, as our lives become managed experiences optimised for efficient data extraction, and our social relations mediated by computer engineering.…Read more
Lars Evertsson, Ann-Sofie Henrikson and Charlott Nyman describe the alarming weapon that a smartphone can become when controlled by an abusive partner. …Read more
Emre Eren Korkmaz, author of 'Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data', considers the use of ‘smart border’ surveillance technology tested on Palestinians for many years and now used in the war on Gaza. …Read more