The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is a collaboration across the University of Virginia that explores how rapidly evolving digital technologies can challenge, but might also fortify, democratic institutions and practices.
Pioneering transdisciplinary research to explore democracy in the digital age
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Data in the Dark
Automation’s Ecologies
Visual Misinformation
AI & the Environment
Student Technology Council
Technology & Disinformation
Social Contagions
Gender & Tech
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Urban Digital Twins
Technology & Democracy Exchange
Data Center Policies
Descendant-Led Digital Humanities Lab & Network
Cryptocurrency & Democracy
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Teaching Spotlight: AI, Images, and Trust at UVA
On the latest podcast episode of AI Exchange @UVA, Mona Kasra, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, explains how the next step in bringing together visual culture, creative practice, and democratic life to examine how AI is reshaping the way we see, interpret, and trust images, is building visual AI literacy strong enough to protect trust without giving up on truth.
Study outlines profile of players from the outskirts of the city
In a recent interview, David Nemer, DTD Lab faculty co-lead explained how digital technologies, payment infrastructures, and platform logics have been reorganizing economic life on the margins, transforming social vulnerability into an opportunity for extraction through betting in the favelas.
Gang rape of children in São Paulo: ‘This content is sold in groups without intervention from the platforms’
In a recent interview, DTD Lab postdoc, Yasmin Curzi, points out that new technologies have led to an explosion of cases of violence against children and adolescents including the dispersion of filmed violences that generate permanent revictimization.
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