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Last night I had the privilege to speak on a panel at Sciences Po where Stanford professor Fred Turner presented his study of California Authoritarians. It was a packed audience that featured Sylvain Parasie, director of the Media Lab, who contextualized the event by pointing out how now more than ever these discussions are vital. […]

For almost two decades I have been studying how the voices of marginalized communities are less likely to be as represented online as those of elites. Instead of getting better, these inequalities are only becoming exponentially worse with AI data sets that not only bias but also leave out the experiences of especially low-income people, […]

Lots of media requests to comment on protests led by youth all over the global south the past few months – from Nepal and Morocco to Indonesia and Kenya. Here is one of the articles (from Newsweek) where I’m quoted: “Successful protest movements have always innovated the use of communication tools, from hiding printing presses […]

Who is left on the sidelines of this digital transition? When it comes to creating publicly available online content that is being used to drive AI’s Large Language Models, the new generation of digital creators is still dominated by those with more income and education. I have expanded digital inequality research from a consumption, or […]