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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...

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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in i...

Publication Research

The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Calacci, Dan, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland. "The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good." Presented at the Oxford & London School of Economics Connected Life conference. (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09350

Divergences in Following Patterns between Influential Twitter Users and their Audiences

Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person.&nb...

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

Future bright: SA data scientist awarded scholarship to study at MIT in Massachusetts

Lynn Cameron highlights Human Dynamics student Tobin South and his path from the University of Adelaide to the Media Lab.

Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

When two heads aren’t better than one

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.

Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.

Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.

Increased Urban Segregation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inher...

Social Mirror

Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...

Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create

But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.

Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.

MIT’s Deb Roy analyzes divisions caused by social media-dominated world

In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.

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An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.

Modeling Migration

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Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility

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

Center for Civic Media

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Voter Education through Network Analytics

In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to abse...

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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

Learning Loops

Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to mak...

Managing the flow of ideas in a pandemic

Tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.

It's time for next-generation remote collaboration

With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.

Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...

A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.

How to foster innovation in your workplace

Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change

Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.

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Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...

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