Meredith Broussard

Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.[1] Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. As a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she built Bailiwick, a tool designed to uncover data-driven campaign finance stories, created for the United States presidential election of 2016.[2] She was previously a features editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a software developer at the AT&T Bell Labs and MIT Media Lab. Broussard has published features and essays in many outlets including The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Slate Magazine.

Meredith Broussard
Broussard in 2018
Born
United States
EducationColumbia University, Harvard University
OccupationAssociate Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute NYU
Known forResearch in artificial intelligence and investigative reporting; coining the term "technochauvinism"
Websitemeredithbroussard.com

Publications

Broussard has published a wide range of books examining the intersection of technology and social practice. Her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, published in April 2018 by MIT Press, examines the limits of technology in solving social problems.[3] She has been profiled in Communications of the ACM[4] and cited by Christopher Mims of The Wall Street Journal as an expert in the future of self-driving car technology.[5]

  • Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World[3] Positive reviews appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer,[6] American Scientist,[7] ZDNet,[8] and in the Royal Society of Chemistry's publication, Chemistry World.[9]
  • "Broken Technology Hurts Democracy"[10]
  • "Challenges of archiving and preserving born-digital news applications"[11]
  • "How to Think About Bots"[12]
  • "New Airbnb Data Reveals Some Hosts Are Raking In Big Bucks"[13]
  • "The Irony of Writing Online About Digital Preservation"[14]
  • "The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies"[15]
  • "When Cops Check Facebook"[16]
  • "Big Data in Practice: Enabling Computational Journalism Through Code-Sharing and Reproducible Research Methods"[17]
  • "Preserving News Apps Presents Huge Challenges"[18]
  • "Why Poor Schools Can't Win at Standardized Testing"[19]
  • "Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting"[20]

References
  1. "Meredith Broussard". Journalism.nyu.edu.
  2. "Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog". Washington Post.
  3. Broussard, Meredith (2018-04-01). Artificial Unintelligence. Mitpress.mit.edu.
  4. "Putting the Data Science into Journalism". Cacm.acm.org.
  5. Mims, Christopher (2018-09-13). "Driverless Hype Collides With Merciless Reality". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  6. "Meredith Broussard's 'Artificial Unintelligence': Against the fetish of the machine". 2.philly.com.
  7. "Fixing Tech's Built-In Bias". Americanscientist.org. 2018-08-06.
  8. "Artificial Unintelligence, book review: Exploring the limits of technology". Zdnet.com.
  9. "Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World". Chemistryworld.com.
  10. Broussard, Meredith (May 12, 2017). "Broken Technology Hurts Democracy". The Atlantic.
  11. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 43(2) 150–157. 2017. doi:10.1177/0340035216686355.
  12. Broussard, Meredith (February 23, 2016). "How to Think About Bots". Motherboard.
  13. Broussard, Meredith (December 2, 2015). "New Airbnb Data Reveals Some Hosts Are Raking In Big Bucks". Huffington Post.
  14. Broussard, Meredith (November 20, 2015). "The Irony of Writing Online About Digital Preservation". The Atlantic.
  15. Broussard, Meredith (July 8, 2015). "The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies". The Atlantic.
  16. Broussard, Meredith (April 19, 2015). "When Cops Check Facebook". The Atlantic.
  17. Digital Journalism. (Taylor & Francis)  2015. doi:10.1080/21670811.2015.1074863.
  18. Newspaper Research Journal. 36(3) 299 –313. 2015. doi:10.1177/0739532915600742.
  19. Broussard, Meredith (July 15, 2015). "Why Poor Schools Can't Win at Standardized Testing". The Atlantic.
  20. Digital Journalism. (Taylor & Francis)  2014. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.985497.
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