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Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Lynn Cameron highlights Human Dynamics student Tobin South and his path from the University of Adelaide to the Media Lab.
Looking beyond smart cities
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.
Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inher...
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...
But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.
Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.
Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.
Saa, I.L., Novak, M., Morales, A.J. et al. Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility. Appl Netw Sci 5, 70 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00308-9
In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to abse...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to mak...
Tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.
With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.
Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dan, Larson, Kent, Pentland, Alex (Sandy), "The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good," arXiv.org, 2019.
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...
Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...
Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.
We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
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