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SEPTEMBER 2021
What’s Lost and Gained in the World of Narrated Journalism
Narrated journalism does not aim to assuage our...
Encoded Bias: How Pretrial Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Entrench Prejudice
Pretrial Risk Assessment Algorithms can digitiz...
Floor or Stepping Stone: The Potential and Pitfalls of Minimum Basic Income
UBI isn’t just an opportunity for recovery. It’...
Your Next Interviewer May Be a Machine: “Moneyball” in Corporate Hiring
Taking a “Moneyball” approach to hiring may mak...
The Media’s Role in Shaping the Narrative Surrounding Athletes’ Mental Health
Digital mass media can use its widespread influ...
Instagram Infographic Activism: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?
Instagram infographic activism has ushered in a...
Linguistic Revival: How Japan Restored the Native Ainu Language with “AI Pirika”
While language extinction isn’t a new phenomeno...
Why We’re Seeing Déjà Vu with Vaccination Passports
Whether or not they may be the right move forwa...
Windows Into AI: How New Interpretability Tools Might Enable Trustworthy AI
Now is a time for researchers, governments, and...
Unlocking the IP Safe: Waiving Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines
The sweeping effects of COVID-19 and dramatic s...
Combatting Tech with More Tech: Blockchain’s Role in Tackling Digital Misinformation
What Technology Reveals
“Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the esse...
Refresh
Rewired’s fourth issue, Refresh, seeks to explore both the bold, dynamic changes coming to techno...
APRIL 2021
Here’s How to Build Trust in Algorithms
The interdisciplinary proposal of explaining their decisions has galvanized philosophers, technol...
WATCH OUT
Is mass surveillance really protecting public safety?
Don’t Shoot the iMessenger
We must take a more integrative and compassionate approach to our loved ones’ screen time.
“Does Money Manipulate Art?”: How Today’s Crypto-Art Boom Revisits Questions Raised by 1960s Conceptual Art
Extinguishing Misinformation
The complexity of misinformation necessitates an interdisciplinary and cross-industry solution.
The Art of Online Friendships
Maybe we can stop thinking of our online interactions as a poor-man’s-substitute.
Designing for Depolarization: Burner Accounts, Internet Anonymity and Stanford Missed Connections
(Anti)Trust
Technology depends on trust. People must trust their devices to respect their privacy, trust othe...
JANUARY 2021
Disruption Will Not Save Us
Too many public officials buy the Valley’s marketing and mythology at face value.
Tracing Our (Mis)steps: What Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps Reveal About Competing Values
“So Much Cooking” — and Digital Reading
My definition of reading has long since moved to encapsulate more than print-only paradigms.
How Covid-19 Can Help Us Build Better Scientific Communities
Immediate publicity for Covid-19 science has be...
Portraits of the Corporate Bay Area: A Review of Randall Mann’s “Proprietary”
Proprietary shuttles us into San Francisco, the...
Reanimating the Digital Zombie
Warm Bodies is not alone in using the zombie genre to critique our dependence on technology.
The Office Online
Social media platforms are effectively bringing the worst parts of the office online.
How Building in Public is Fueling a New Class of Content Creation
Launch House is a way of tapping into a new cla...
Viral
With the pandemic rippling through communities and media permeating digital networks, Viral int...
Let There Be Light: Radar in the Second World War
Without radar, the outcome of the war could hav...
OCTOBER 2020
Acquiring Real Estate in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
“What is the role of the government in regulati...
Data-Driven Diplomacy: China’s Growing Surveillance Industrial Complex
“As more authoritarian countries implement Chin...
SEPTEMBER 2020
Pandora’s Bots: Cheaper than Free Speech?
Do traditional speech theories hold up against new speech technologies?
Black Voters Matter
Black Voters Matter is centered around the people because we believe that there are a lot of folk...
A Second Look at Second Life
The responsible and rational thing to do on the internet is to ‘wear a mask’ against social plagu...
Data and Discretion: Why We Should Exercise Caution Around Using the COMPAS Algorithm in Court
137 Questions: Criminal Risk Assessment Algorithms as a Case Study for Data Ethics
In a world where 137 questions can change one’s...
Technology and Government: A Q&A with Congresswoman Eshoo
I worry most about the role of social media in...
What Can Computer Algorithms Tell Us About Literature?
What can computer algorithms reveal about Roman...
Resisting the “Facebook-ization” of Our Public Spaces
Digital systems now control everything from our...
Transgender Robots: Some Reflections on “Her”
At its heart, science-fiction dreams up ideal w...
Smart Solutions, Not Just Smart Cities: Proposing Design Thinking for 21st-Century Urban Planning
Deepfakes Versus Democracy
Deepfakes can render elections meaningless while also dismantling the accountability and governan...
An Old Dance with New Moves: Modern China’s Digital Civil Society
China’s attitudes towards its digital civil soc...
AUGUST 2020
Governance
Our inaugural issue, Governance, explores the potential for technology to govern our lived experi...