Tech and Society

Kara Swisher (SFS'84) spoke with AOL's co-founder about her career covering tech giants like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, and what she finds "heartening" about the tech world now.

Cooper will lead a new hub dedicated to fostering more informed information and technology policy through elevating independent research.

Georgetown has partnered with Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics.

Georgetown appointed Soyica Colbert, former interim dean of Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences and Idol Family Professor of Performing Arts and African American Studies, vice president for interdisciplinary initiatives.

Atharv Gupta (SFS’23), a Georgetown senior, Pelosi Scholar and international development researcher working to drive change in emerging markets through technology, has won the 2023 Rhodes Scholarship.

The Georgetown Tech & Society Initiative hosted a week of events on topics ranging from tech policy and modernizing Congress to human-centric artificial intelligence and art in the digital age.

Frances Haugen, the former Facebook project manager turned whistleblower, championed transparency and accountability at an event hosted by the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD).

danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft Research who studies technology and society, has joined Georgetown as a visiting distinguished professor, accelerating a university initiative on technology, ethics, governance and policy.

McCourt’s Amy O’Hara and Georgetown Law’s Tanina Rostain are working with Amazon Web Services on the Civil Justice Data Commons, a repository of court data for researchers and judicial institutions.

Faculty, student and alumni researchers in Georgetown’s Happiness Lab found online interactions with close ties predicted positive effects — but online interactions with strangers are associated with lower connectedness.