Research
The Institute’s research program encompasses a range of investigative, scholarly, and policy-directed projects that explore the intersection of law, technology, and the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age. Institute staff and Visiting Research Scholars convene discussions and commission and produce essay series, white papers, reports, and original research that illuminate trends affecting the system of free expression, support the Institute's litigation projects, and explore new frameworks for protecting the freedoms of speech and the press.
Our research is concentrated in our three priority areas, Free Speech & Social Media, Transparency & Democracy, and Privacy & Surveillance, with a particular emphasis on free speech challenges arising from new technologies.
Learn more about Senior Visiting Research Scholar positions at the Institute here.
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Lies and the Law
A series of public conversations exploring what the law can and should do about the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere
Research Projects
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Symposiums and Convenings
Lies and the Law
A series of public conversations exploring what the law can and should do about the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere
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Essay Series
Data and Democracy
A Knight Institute and Law and Political Economy Project essay series considering how big data is changing our system of self-government
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Symposiums and Convenings
Mapping Social Media
A research project aimed at identifying the “logics” of social media
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Essay Series
Occasional Papers
An essay series tackling pressing issues at the intersection of speech, privacy, and technology
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Essay Series
The Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse
An essay series addressing the tech giants' power to shape public discourse
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Essay Series
Emerging Threats
An essay series exploring new or intensifying threats to the system of free expression
Essays and Scholarship
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Data and Democracy
Data and Democracy: An Introduction
Questions of data regulation are at the heart of democratic practice today, from issues of secrecy to the use of data to constitute democratic institutions themselves
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Data and Democracy
Licensure as Data Governance
Moving toward an industrial policy for artificial intelligence
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Occasional Papers
What We Owe Whistleblowers
Jameel Jaffer argues that their disclosures since 9/11 have been vital, and that we should protect them better than we do
By Jameel Jaffer