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marygray / April 27, 2018

Running Out of Time: The Impact and Value of Flexibility in On-Demand Crowdwork

Hot off the presses, I'm excited to share this paper, Running Out of Time: The Impact and Value of Flexibility in On-Demand Crowdwork, co-authored with my …

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marygray / January 18, 2016

The global digital assembly line has arrived

A version of this essay originally appeared in the Op-Ed Section of The Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2016 The global digital assembly line has arrived. Its …

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marygray / January 10, 2016

L.A. Times Op-Ed on the “taskification” of jobs and the future of work

I just published a small piece from our crowdwork research in the LA Times this Sunday. It reflects on the challenges that workers face in a world of …

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marygray / November 12, 2014

Why LGBT Communities and Our Allies Should Care about Net Neutrality

The LGBT Technology Partnership released research that I co-authored with media scholar and sociologist Jessie Daniels earlier this year. In it, we lay out the …

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marygray / August 19, 2014

MSR Faculty Summit 2014 Ethics Panel Recap

[Cross-posted to the Social Media Collective] When the Facebook Emotions Study first made international news, I felt strongly (still do) that researchers, …

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marygray / July 13, 2014

Must-reads for how to study people’s online behavior (and navigate the ethical challenges that entails!)

I realized after posting my thoughts on how to think about social media as a site of human interaction (and all the ethical and methodological implications of …

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marygray / July 8, 2014

When Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What?

I’m frustrated that the state of public intellectualism allows us, individually, to jump into the conversation about the recently published Facebook “Emotions” …

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marygray / March 31, 2014

Matrix Algebra: how to be human in a digital economy

By Sara C. Kingsley and Dr. Mary L. Gray (cross-posted at CultureDigitally and the Center for Popular Economics    Ray and Charles Working on a Conceptual …

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marygray / July 16, 2012

How to think about ringing in your ears as something bigger than you

I've been feeling the need to freshen up the Blog-ish. What better way to do that than to post a link to a new blog post by another researcher I really love to …

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marygray / February 29, 2012

A Message to the “First Responders” in Gay Kids’ Lives: Why We Need to Ditch the Politics of Blame, Stop Talking About “Cyberbullying,” and Move Toward Sharing Responsibility for the Loss of Tyler Clementi

Mary L. Gray Senior Researcher Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA Versions of this post will be cross-posted to socialqueery; the Huffington …

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