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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 …

[Read more...] about L.A. Times Op-Ed on the “taskification” of jobs and the future of work

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 …

[Read more...] about Why LGBT Communities and Our Allies Should Care about Net Neutrality

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

[Read more...] about MSR Faculty Summit 2014 Ethics Panel Recap

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

[Read more...] about When Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What?

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

[Read more...] about 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