Lab

BIG TECH AND POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY

This lab develops original research on the global politics of Big Tech, particularly Google and Facebook, as they engage in unprecedented "algorithmic governance."

Our current project builds and analyzes an original dataset of over 4,000 incidents concerning Facebook's sociopolitical harms since the company's founding (2004) using news data and tracks over 1,000 related regulatory activities worldwide to identify the most pressing accountability gaps.

The project has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and several internal grants at Purdue.

Purdue undergraduates in the lab:

     Brooke Price (2019 – )

     Madeleine Yang (2020 – )

     Margaret Collins (2022 – )

     Rachel Young (2019 – 2022)

     Kaitlyn Petratos (2020 – 2022)

     Charlotte Yeung (2022)

     Shannon Kang (2021 – 2022)

     Amanda Shie (2021 – 2022)

     Booth Kayonga (2022)

     Nathan Miller (2021)

     Taewon Kang (2021)

     Joslyn Lopez-Richardson (2021)

     Matthew Heagerty (2019 – 2021)

     Allison Kelly (2019 – 2021)

     Zhuoran Qiu (2020 – 2021)

     Viraj Desetty (2019 – 2020)

     Kayla Murphy (2019 – 2020)

     Sam Rust (2019 – 2020)

     Ethan Callen (2019 – 2020)