Gender and Sexuality

6 days ago

Research indicates women have less influence than men in a variety of professional settings, including politics. We conducted a field…

6 days ago

For education policymakers, the last two years have been among the most tumultuous and challenging in U.S. history. Issue after…

by Harvard Kennedy School: Shorenstein Center & Institute of Politics

November 18, 2021

A journalist in Asia for 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler.com, the top digital-only news site that is leading the…

by NPR

October 15, 2021

The CDC is amping up its plea for pregnant people to get vaccinated. Vaccination rates for pregnant people are far…

by Tom Simonite

September 21, 2021

Fred, a trans man, clicked his mouse, and his tenorful tones suddenly sank deeper. He’d switched on voice-changing algorithms that…

by Justin Scheck, Newley Purnell, and Jeff Horwitz

September 21, 2021

In January, a former cop turned Facebook Inc. investigator posted an all-staff memo on the company’s internal message board. It…

by Garnett Achieng'

September 2, 2021

Last year, the Electoral Commission of Uganda declared that the January 14, 2021 presidential elections would be “scientific,” meaning that…

by Hannah Rose Kirk

August 24, 2021

New research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) exposes critical problems in how emoji-based online hate is tackled, with OII…

by Scott Winter

August 24, 2021

Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In…

August 19, 2021

In this conversation, Duncan Watts and Danaë Metaxa will discuss Metaxa’s research using algorithm audits to measure gender and racial…