Bouk, Dan and danah boyd. 2021. “Democracy’s Data Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of the US Census.”  Knight First Amendment Institute. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/democracys-data-infrastructure

We set out—an ethnographer and a historian—to think about the possible significance of the debate over disclosure avoidance by examining deeply the history of similar technical disputes that had troubled the census. We hoped our investigation might help us better understand what was at stake in the debates we were witnessing. More than that, we hoped that our investigation would teach us something about the role of openness in the making of open data.