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For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people have innovated ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotion...
Transforming data into knowledge
The spread of malicious or accidental misinformation in social media, especially in time-sensitive situations such as real-world emergenc...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Open Ocean
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Understanding and empowering human networks
Creating technology for social change
Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself
Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largel...
The Electome: Where AI Meets Political JournalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
Almaatouq, Abdullah, Erez Shmueli, Mariam Nouh, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Vivek K. Singh, Mansour Alsaleh, Abdulrahman Alarifi, and Anas Alfaris. "If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts." International Journal of Information Security 15, no. 5 (2016): 475-491.
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
Peter Krafft, Kaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2017). Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science. ACM, 2014.
The golden age of social media coincides with a worldwide leadership crisis, manifested by our seeming inability to address any major glo...
FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
To gain insights into how digital technologies can make local governments more responsive and deepen citizen engagement, we are studying ...
Graeff, E. 2013. ‘What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future.’ Presented at Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Cambridge, May 5.
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems—the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offl...
Many Twitter users post questions with hashtags like #twoogle or #lazyweb. Is this an effective way to find expert answers beyond one's n...
In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...
Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put...
Can I borrow your network? Shout! is a marketplace for retweets that allows people to exchange micro-contracts for future retweets. Shout...
Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...
People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...
Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election