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In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses inste

We’re thrilled to announce our new Co-Opting AI Book series, helmed by series editor Mona Sloane!Series Editor Mona SloaneCo-Opting AI will be a new series of compact books for readers to better understand the social dimension of AI. Co-opting the hype around so-called “artificial intelligen

By Matthew E. Kahn, author of Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our CitiesBefore the COVID Shock, urban economists told a familiar “tale of two cities.” The post-industrial cities such as Baltimore and Detroit continued to lose people because these cities had

by Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington, and Jennifer Lundquist, authors of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online RomanceDating apps and websites have become the most popular way Americans meet new people and the only way to do so during the pandemic. Yet, for many Black America

This post is part of our AAA #RaisingOurVoices2020 event blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more.by Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone NetworkRight now, many of us are reevaluating what it means to be connected. In th

We're pleased to announce that Michelle Lipinski has joined the University of California Press as our new senior acquisitions editor for economics and technology studies. With just three days in the office under her belt before the Bay Area's shelter in place orders were issued, Michelle has adjuste

The future of food is inevitably a political and communal thing, and it demands open inquiry and discussion. We get to ask questions over the figurative or literal dinner table.