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Issue Four • Sep 22, 2021

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What’s Lost and Gained in the World of Narrated Journalism

Digital CultureFeatureNarrated Journalism

Narrated journalism does not aim to assuage our need for immediacy. Rather, it provides something that is often mis...

Encoded Bias: How Pretrial Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Entrench Prejudice

BiasEditorialPretrial Risk Assessment Algorithms

Pretrial Risk Assessmen...

Floor or Stepping Stone: The Potential and Pitfalls of Minimum Basic Income

AutomationReportUniversal Basic Income

UBI isn’t just an opportunity for recovery. It’s an opportunity for e...

Your Next Interviewer May Be a Machine: “Moneyball” in Corporate Hiring

AutomationBiasHiring

Taking a “Moneyball” approach to hiring may make it easier to navigat...

The Media’s Role in Shaping the Narrative Surrounding Athletes’ Mental Health

EditorialMental HealthSocial Media

Digital mass media can use its widespread influence to spearhead a sh...

Instagram Infographic Activism: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?

ActivismInstagramSocial Media

Instagram infographic activism has ushered in a new era for social mo...

Linguistic Revival: How Japan Restored the Native Ainu Language with “AI Pirika”

AIFeatureLanguage Revival

While language extinction isn’t a new phenomenon, language loss is oc...

Why We’re Seeing Déjà Vu with Vaccination Passports

Personal FreedomSurveillanceVaccine Passports

Whether or not they may be the right move forward, vaccine passports...

Windows Into AI: How New Interpretability Tools Might Enable Trustworthy AI

Artificial IntelligenceHealthcareRegulation

Now is a time for researchers, governments, and industry to act. They...

Unlocking the IP Safe: Waiving Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines

EditorialIntellectual PropertyVaccines

The sweeping effects of COVID-19 and dramatic success of vaccines for...

Combatting Tech with More Tech: Blockchain’s Role in Tackling Digital Misinformation

BlockchainEmerging TechnologyMisinformation

Blockchain has proven i...

What Technology Reveals

EssayHeideggerPhilosophy

“Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of...

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