Social sciences
Women of Color and the Digital Labor of Repair
Women of color make our digital products. They assemble them in Asian factories and their cheap labor has made the tech industry’s innovation possible. This presentation focuses on their immaterial and knowledge work that contributes…
Resilience – Episode 1 | Innovating to understand & act
How can we begin to understand the complexity of the pandemic at a societal, personal, and molecular level? We explore the importance of data, biology, and technology in understanding the spread of the disease, its…
Resilience – Episode 2 | Rethinking our shared experiences
What does it take to come together across organizations and boundaries to mobilize against the pandemic? We explore how an unexpected coalition put antibodies to work to fight the disease even before there was a…
Resilience – Episode 3 | Discovering new ways to find resilience
We explore how new innovations are helping us to travel more safely, to share public spaces and to conduct our daily lives. From detecting the virus in our environment, to understanding and optimizing the movements…
The New Jim Code: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha…
New Future of Work: How remote and hybrid work will shape workplaces and society with Jaime Teevan and Siddharth Suri
In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Senior Principal Researcher Siddharth Suri explore the many ways people were impacted by work shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about how race, gender, income,…
New Future of Work: Redefining workspaces as hybrid and remote work become more prevalent with Jaime Teevan and Ginger Hudson
In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Principal User Research Manager Ginger Hudson share how people evolved their home office setups throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and they…
