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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…
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Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation

Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it.
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The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
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Deb Roy named to Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder

The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.
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Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces

Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
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Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
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MAS.S72. How to Write Academic Grant Proposals and Research Manuscripts

Description: Designed for grant proposal and research publication student writers, this course presents a general overview as well as …
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
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iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…
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The Best Inventions of 2020 | A New Kind of Interface: MIT Media Lab AlterEgo

Congrats to Fluid Interfaces PhD student Arnav Kapur and collaborators on the selection of AlterEgo by ⁦Time Magazine for this recognition.
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…
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PubPub

PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical format …
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U.S. Postal Stamp features research from Biomechatronics group

For the robotics category of the innovation series, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed by Media Lab PhD graduate Matt Carney
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The Amazing Disappearing Election

Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
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New US postage stamp highlights MIT research

The stamp is part of a new USPS series on innovation, representing computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics, and solar technology
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an in…
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Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and th…
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…
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Virtual meetings are about to turn the art of management into a scalable science

Quartz at Work looks at ways that online meetings, with tools like those developed by certain spinoffs, can improve management decisions.
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LeakyPhones

LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier s…
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Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
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The perfect privacy storm

New issues in privacy debate with technology and contact-tracing.
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Lesson of a Pandemic for a Connected World

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.
Digital Life
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Dizzying Decisions

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
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Phones could track the spread of Covid-19. Is it a good idea?

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.
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Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
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A holographic meeting platform for collaborating from anywhere

"There's got to be a better way to share space and work together remotely—but computers or phones may not be the right tools."
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Ultimate Media

Ultimate Media
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Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.
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FiftyNifty

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ca…
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CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 
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Seven ways to create entertainment with impact

Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.
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How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
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What tech will look like in 2039

We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.
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Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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TARF in the News

BBC: New tech lets submarines 'email' planesFox News: Submarine breakthrough: MIT develops wireless system to let subs communicate with pla…
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FaceSense: Affective-Cognitive State Inference from Facial Video

People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestu…
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Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research Ecosystem

Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017
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The FiftyNifty challenge

FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Publication Research

Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems

Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
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Critical size of ego communication networks

Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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Captions++

Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put t…
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Reach

Reach merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop data from services users already us…
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DbDb

DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …
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Comm.unity

Comm.unity is a platform that implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized servers…
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