Theories behind my practice.

What data costs culture, and what it costs business.

• Privacy, law, and society

  The Revolution Will Not Be Live Streamed

  Social media trades our privacy for publicity, accelerating a surveillance state through the lens of hyperrealism, with outsized harm to Black people. And what individuals, technologists, corporations, and governments can do to reclaim it.

  Malcolm Xavier · Northwestern MSL · May 6, 2023

• Law, ethics, and product

  When You Hear Some Feedback, Keep Going Take It Higher

  Ethics in the product management of video-sharing apps. How copyright law, the DMCA, parent companies, and recommendation algorithms shape what creators make—and who gets to be one.

  Malcolm Xavier · Northwestern MSL · May 18, 2022