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- The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems: Issues and Policy
- The Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response is proud to present an important report, Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues. The report is co-authored by Helen Nissenbaum New York University; Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Computer Science, and the Information Law Institute, and Lucas D. Introna, Lancaster University, UK; Centre for the Study of Technology and Organization. The report highlights the potential and limitations of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT), noting those tasks for which it seems ready for deployment, those areas where performance obstacles may be overcome by future technological developments or sound operating procedures, and still other issues which appear intractable. Its concern with efficacy extends to ethical considerations.
- Gabriella Coleman Honored with Carras Research Award
- Media, Culture, and Communication professor Gabriella Coleman was honored with the Carras Research Award for her article titled "Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers." (Cultural Anthropology, Forthcoming August 2009).
- Melissa Aronczyk, PhD, Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship; Western Scholarship
- Melissa Aronczyk, PhD in the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, was awarded a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. In addition, she was honored by NYU Steinhardt with the Western Scholarship in recognition of her outstanding scholastic attainment and for upholding the highest ideals of service, loyalty and devotion to the School.
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The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) is committed to the proposition that society is a form of communication. Our core pursuit is advancement of research, scholarship, and teaching in the various ways that people make, disseminate and share meaningful symbols as individuals and social groups. To us, communication is the foundational practice of human experience and culture is the shared, lived realities of particular groups. We investigate the ways in which the technologies of communication record, transmit and shape what we know and do.
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