Event

MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado

Alfredo Corchado in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.

Person

Ethan Zuckerman

Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media

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MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado

Alfredo Corchado in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.

Event

Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman Talk @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionThis talk will be live webcast Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab and Ethan Zuckerma…

Thursday
September 12, 2013
Event

POSTPONED Media Lab Conversations Series: Geetha Narayanan

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later in …

Friday
March 15, 2013
Person

Alfredo Morales-Guzman

Former Research Affiliate

Event

Ethan Zuckerman @ BIF10

LocationBusiness Innovation Factory, Providence, RI Description

Wednesday — Thursday
September 17, 2014 —
September 18, 2014
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor

Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.

Thursday
May 16, 2013
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Meet the Labbers: Ethan Zuckerman

"Making media and putting it out in the world is a really powerful way of engaging with social change."

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Ethan Zuckerman and Esra'a Al Shafei

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJoin us for a conversation with human rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei and Ethan Zuckerman, Direc…

Tuesday
December 6, 2016
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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Colloquium: Ethan Zuckerman, "How Wide a Web"

LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe internet enables unprecedented connections across international borders. Whether we read a daily newspaper f…

Monday
November 29, 2010
Article

Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

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Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, has been appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Scienc

Publication

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775

Person

Oren Zuckerman

Former Research Assistant

Person

Ethan Alley

Former Research Assistant

Project

Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…

Article

Ethan Zuckerman Receives Zócalo Book Prize

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Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma

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Leading Conversations in AI: Extended intelligence & humans with machines

Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.

Friday
October 8, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Article

Ethan Zuckerman Receives a 2016 MIT MLK Leadership Award

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Ethan Zuckerman, Cyberscholar and Activist, to Lead Center for Civic Media

Project

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …

Project

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…

Event

Tod Machover @ Composing Conversations, Dallas

LocationThe Dallas Opera, Hamon Hall Winspear Opera House Description

Tuesday
September 18, 2012
Project

Predicting Bonding in Conversations

We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict w…

Post

Building Trust and Fostering Long-Term Engagement in Conversations

 DescriptionMeaningful conversations and genuine engagement rely on trust that goes beyond just words. In participatory dialogue, trus…

Event

Catalyst Conversations: Tod Machover and Kevin Esvelt

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionIn a world capable of destroying itself, composer Tod Machover and evolutionary biologist …

Monday
March 28, 2016
Event

Catalyst Conversations: The Transformative Power of Fiber

Catalyst Conversations in partnership with The Foundry presentsThe Transformative Power of FiberResearcher: Irmandy WicaksonoArtist: Cori C…

Wednesday
November 2, 2022
6:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

MLTalks: Carroll Bogert "Look Who's Talking: Non-Profit Newsmakers in the New Media Age"

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionChanges in the media world have been hard on journalists and unsettling for news consu…

Monday
September 10, 2012
Article

Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

Publication

MultiPar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations

Lee, D. W., Kim, Y., Picard, R., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2023). Multipar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12204.

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Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations

Jaques, N., Kim, Y. L., and Picard, R. W. "Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.

Publication

Common Sense Conversations: Understanding Casual Conversation using a Common Sense Database

Nathan Eagle, Push Singh, Alex Pentland

Publication

Proto-conversations with an anthropomorphic robot

C. Breazeal

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MLTalks: Judith Donath

Judith Donath in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Thursday
June 12, 2014
Video

Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience (4/19/22)

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group

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MLTalks: Jillian York

Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York in conversation with Director for Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

Event

MLTalks: Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.

Thursday
March 28, 2013
Event

MLTalks: Tim O'Reilly

Towards a Global Brain: Tim O'Reilly in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

Wednesday
April 18, 2012
Article

Climate Conversations, S2E3: How will Human Beings Adapt to a Changing Climate?

How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversations…

Publication

Automated Coach to Practice Conversations

M. Ehsan Hoque, Rosalind W. Picard

Article

India has been able to manage complex conversations better than US: Tenzin Priyadarshi

Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.

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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

Event

MLTalks: Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards

Technology Driving Global Media and Finance: Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards in conversation at the Media Lab.

Event

Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

Project

A Conversation with the Sun

​A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…

Event

Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience—A Critical Element of Comprehensive Care

Leslie E. Green will join the Biomechatronics group to discuss pre-surgical education for patients facing amputation.

Tuesday
April 19, 2022
12:30pm — 2:00pm ET
Project

Conversation Dynamics

Making visible dynamics within conversations enables us to see conversation quality, dynamics between participants, the impact of facilitat…

Article

Who sparks more UNcivil conversations on Twitter - Trump or Clinton?

Project

Conversation Chains

Using natural language processing and machine learning, we discover emergent themes and patterns within our dialogue data set. Exploring ho…

Post

Papers by Media Lab researchers and alumni recognized with Honorable Mentions at CHI 2019

Congratulations!

Article

Rude Awakening Who sparks more UNcivil conversations on Twitter — Trump or Clinton?

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Media Lab spinoff Xander honored at CES 2023

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

Article

French media is polarizing. But not in the way we expected.

Ethan Zuckerman reflects on a year of research with collaborators to determine how the French media landscape differs from that of the US.

Event

Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…

Thursday
May 27, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Post

The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

Publication

Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language

Jaques, N., McDuff, D., Kim, Y. K., and Picard, R. W. "Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.