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Data & Society — Points
Points
A home for ideas and reflections at the intersection of technology and society, our blog publishes pieces that consider timely issues and essential questions related to our work and the field.
Reframing Our Relationship to Technology
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific
As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people.
Policy and Accountability
Fashion’s Data Doubles
In their research on how AI is reshaping modeling work, Alexandra Mateescu, Zoë West, and Sanjay Pinto find a situation ripe for labor exploitation.
Participation and Trust
In Pennsylvania, a Nuclear Revival for an Uncertain AI Future
Three Mile Island, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is coming back online to power the AI boom. Livia Garofalo, Joan Mukogosi, and Maia Woluchem explore what this means for the surrounding community.
Reframing Our Relationship to Technology
What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy?
Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it, researcher Briana Vecchione writes.
Policy and Accountability
September 9, 2025
Fashion’s Data Doubles
In their research on how AI is reshaping modeling work, Alexandra Mateescu, Zoë West, and Sanjay Pinto find a situation ripe for labor exploitation.
June 3, 2025
Tech Power and the Crisis of Democracy
This series, a collaboration with Tech Policy Press, features essays by researchers exploring how today’s technology systems are deepening democratic divides.
January 22, 2025
What Does Silicon Valley Want?
In a personal reflection, Brian J. Chen offers some lines of inquiry, directions, and tentative explanations for understanding and engaging on matters of tech policy in this moment.
Participation and Trust
February 5, 2025
Digital Infrastructures, Material Consequences
Members of the Trustworthy Infrastructures team write about their research road trip through Pennsylvania, where they traced the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present.
September 18, 2024
The Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab: Methods from the Field
The AIMLab team reflects on why they’ve shifted from thinking about their work as being about “impact assessment” to understanding it as a form of impact engagement.
March 13, 2024
A Working History of the Verified Internet
Robyn Caplan introduces her research on the history of the verified badge: the familiar checkmark that is “one of the few symbols of stratification on the internet that is visible to us, the user.”
Reframing Our Relationship to Technology
August 6, 2025
What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy?
Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it, researcher Briana Vecchione writes.
June 18, 2025
Why Atlanta is the Focus of My Sociotechnical Research
“Atlanta isn’t just a research site — it’s a critical node in the historical and technological networks that have shaped, and continue to shape, America’s legacy of racialized labor,” writes Labor Future Researcher Anuli Akanegbu.
June 11, 2025
Chatbots in Disguise
When researchers Ranjit Singh, Livia Garofalo, Briana Vecchione, and Emnet Tafesse set out to interview people about their use of mental health chatbots, they encountered a particular kind of AI-enabled deception.