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Think AI is scary already? This software writes its own horror stories

Shelley's artificial neural network takes turns with humans in collaborative storytelling.

via Washington Post · Oct. 30, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

MIT researchers bring a horror fiction-writing robot named Shelley to life

With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ...

via Fortune · Oct. 30, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

These horror stories created by artificial intelligence are the stuff of nightmares

An artificial intelligence is creating worlds where possessed dolls and other creatures chase after frightened, helpless h...

via Newsweek · Oct. 25, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?

With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.

via MIT News · Oct. 27, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +2 more
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Can AI learn to scare us? With Shelley, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps

Introducing Shelley: the world’s first AI-human horror story collaboration

Oct. 24, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media #machine learning
Article Research

An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter

Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.

via Technology Review · Aug. 3, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #social media
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability

#art #consumer electronics #crowdsourcing +10 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

The FiftyNifty challenge

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

Feb. 15, 2017
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +2 more
Publication Research

If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts

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.

Article, April 2016
in Human Dynamics
#social media
Publication Research

Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking

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).

Academic Paper, March 2017
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #collective intelligence
Publication Research

Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam

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.

Academic Paper, June 2014
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #social robotics +1 more
Article Research

Beyond Viral

The golden age of social media coincides with a worldwide leadership crisis, manifested by our seeming inability to address any major glo...

via Communications of the ACM · April 1, 2016
in Human Dynamics · Scalable Cooperation
#social media
Project Research

FlipFeed

FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...

in Social Machines
Martin Saveski · Ann Yuan +3 more
#social networks #data #networks +3 more
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Project Research

Responsive Communities: Pilot Project in Jun, Spain

To gain insights into how digital technologies can make local governments more responsive and deepen citizen engagement, we are studying ...

Deb Roy · Martin Saveski +1 more
#civic media #social media
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Publication Research

What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future

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.

Article, May 2013
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #social media
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Who Answers Questions on Twitter?

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 Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias
#social media
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Crowdsourcing Search: The Red Balloon Challenge

In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...

in Scalable Cooperation
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#crowdsourcing #social media #social science +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Captions++

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

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Tomer Weller
#communications #social media
Archived
Project Research

Reach

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

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman
#communications #social media #wellbeing
Archived
Project Research

DeepStream

Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Gordon Mangum
#civic media #social media
Project Research

Comm.unity

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

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Nadav Aharony
#communications #networks #social media +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Crowdsourcing a Manhunt

People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Sohan Dsouza
#crowdsourcing #social media #social science +2 more
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Article Research

Electome Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election

Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election

via MIT News · Sept. 26, 2016
in Social Machines
#data #government #social media

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