Rebecca Weiss
Academic
October 11, 2022, 12:30 PM EDT

CITP Seminar: Participatory User Data Collection and Potential Futures for Platform Accountability: The Case of Mozilla Rally

As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the benevolence of tech platforms. To date, corporate data sharing programs have largely failed to meet the needs of the research community aimed at this problem.   In this talk, the shortcomings of previous corporate data sharing initiatives and identify requirements that must be met by future systems will be outlined.

Bio:

Rebecca Weiss is an award-winning computational social scientist and data science leader. She has worked in academia and industry, applying innovative methods to large-scale data sets to better understand online environments and their behavioral consequences.

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