The Politics of Difference: Race, Technology, and Inclusion

The Technology and Social Change Research Project and the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability – both core research projects at the Shorenstein Center – recently co-sponsored an event at the IOP JFK Jr. Forum on “The Politics of Difference: Race, Technology, and Inclusion.” Panelists included: Prof. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, faculty director of the Initiative […]

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Countering Negative Externalities in Digital Platforms

This Policy Paper is part of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project’s efforts to explain and disseminate ideas about regulation of major technology and digital platform companies. Click here to read more of their research and commentary. The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Policy Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those

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Kathy Pham

Pathways to Public Service: A Computer Scientist and a Mayor on ways to make service a career

Join us for a conversation on careers in public service with Shorenstein Center fellow Kathy Pham, and executive director Setti Warren. Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and researcher on ethics and technology. She has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.

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Undesign the Redline: The Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America

Join us for Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America, a lecture by April De Simone and Katie Swenson, moderated by Miriam Aschkenasy, Program Manager, Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability. Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America is an explorative and visioning framework for addressing systemic

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There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

Join us for a discussion with Kristin Gilger and Julia Wallace, authors of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead,” moderated by Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs.   There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women

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The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms

This Policy Paper is part of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project’s efforts to explain and disseminate ideas about regulation of major technology and digital platform companies. Click here to read more of their research and commentary. The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Policy Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect

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Digital Governing/Governing Digital

Several of the Shorenstein Center’s flagship projects were featured in the latest edition of the Harvard Kennedy School magazine. This comprehensive overview of the school’s digital efforts includes our work on misinformation, digital platform regulation, and privacy. Read the full story and dive into digital research and work happening at the Center and around the

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White Fragility

Join us for a talk with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. This talk will provide an overview of the socialization that inculcates white fragility and provide the perspectives and skills needed for white people to build their racial stamina and develop more

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The Politics of Difference: Race, Technology, and Inclusion

This panel brings together experts in the field of race, technology, media, and policy to converse on a range of topics from the recent public upheavals over facial recognition technology, increasing integratation into police and state surveillance tools, and the manipulation of social media to gain a political advantage. In each case, the rhetoric of

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The Homecomers Podcast

Sarah Smarsh was a Spring 2018 Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. During her fellowship she began work on a podcast featuring voices from the American heartland, which has now been released as The Homecomers. The podcast continues many of the themes from Smarsh’s bestselling book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in

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Jane Perlez

On the Trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times correspondent talks about her time in China

Cosponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Jane Perlez is a fall 2019 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, and most recently was the bureau chief for The New York Times in Beijing. She has been a long time foreign correspondent for The Times, serving in East Africa, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, and Pakistan. She

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Brandi Collins-Dexter

Black Skinhead: Kanye, Conspiracism and the Winding Road to 2020

Brandi Collins-Dexter is a fall 2019 Joan Shorenstein Fellow and the Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, where she oversees the media, culture and economic justice team. She has led a number of successful and highly visible campaigns for corporate and government accountability and has also worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies on key

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Suraj Yengde

Caste Matters

Suraj Yengde in conversation with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS; Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe. Suraj Yengde is an award-winning scholar and activist from India. Suraj is the author of the bestselling book Caste Matters, and a postdoctoral fellow for the Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability Initiative at the Shorenstein

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Adam Moss

How Desperation Breeds Innovation

Adam Moss in conversation with Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs. Adam Moss was the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine from 2004–2019. During his 15-year tenure he oversaw an ambitious digital expansion of parent company New York Media, which included five digital publications in addition to New York: Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Grub Street, each

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