Projects
appetite for data: Race, Neighborhoods, and platform values
Appetite for Data interrogates the social and ethical implications of platform expansion within contemporary “foodie” culture. It provides a critical, nuanced look at the role of foodie platforms in local debates by spotlighting how they mediate neighborhood struggles for identity, representation, and power through data.
Digital Platforms and Local Politics
This ongoing study explores how community-based platforms (such as Yelp, Google Maps and Reviews, and NextDoor) mediate neighborhood discussions and politics; various resistance campaigns against data harms and risks; and creative reuses of data to map and analyze phenomena.
Asians in the Southeast Michigan REGION (ASMR)
Sponsored by the UM Anti-Racism Initiative, and in collaboration with Anne Cong-Huyen, Ian Shin, and Anthony Vanky, this project documents how Asian diasporic social networks in Michigan shape identity, share vital information, and aid in organizing with other communities of color, particularly in response to racist violence.
A Disaggregated Approach to Informing Digital Civil Rights
More details coming soon.
Urban Tech Collective
More details coming soon.
Community Action and Learning Lab (CALL)
More details coming soon.
data-driven strategies of restaurateurs of color
Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, this study explores how minority- and women-owned entrepreneurs in Greater Chicago and Detroit both experience and circumvent biased digital platforms and other issues of data/digital equity in their everyday work.
racial targeting
Sponsored by the Democracy Fund and housed at the NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, this project (PI: Charlton McIlwain, RA: Herbert Chang) problematizes and documents how targeted ads reproduce and reify racially discriminatory infrastructures in everyday life.
LANDLORD THREATS AMID COVID-19
In partnership with the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab and the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, this study documented how landlords used digital technologies to escalate eviction threats and circumvent tenant protections.