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  • David Carroll

    Associate Professor of Media Design

    Email
    david@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    David Carroll

    Profile

    David Carroll is associate professor of media design and former Director of the MFA Design and Technology graduate program at the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design at The New School. He is known for legally challenging Cambridge Analytica and related companies in the UK courts to recapture his 2016 voter profile using European data protection law. Featured in The Great Hack (2019) on Netflix, his data quest has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, Motherboard, The Boston Review, Slate, Mother Jones, and the international press more widely. Formerly CEO of a failed tech startup backed by Hearst and incubated at NYC Media Lab and NY Media Center by IFP, Glossy visually organized digtial archives using machine learning and social content recommendation engines. This experience deep in industry helped form the basis of his research, legal efforts, and public engagement on data rights. His earlier scholarship on mobile media funded by research grants included support from Pearson Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Nokia Research Centers. He is active on Twitter @profcarroll

    Degrees Held

    1997 A.B., Highest Honors in Art History & Religion, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

    2000 M.F.A. Design and Technology, Parsons School fo Design, New School for Social Research, NY, NY

    Research Interests

    interface design,mobile media,programming,social media,transdisciplinary design

    Portfolio

    http://dave.parsons.edu/

    Current Courses

    Thesis Studio 1
    PGTE 5300, Fall 2025

    Future Courses

    Thesis 2
    PUDT 4200, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Collab
    PSAM 5550, Spring 2025

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