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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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Investigating the Iron March forums with computational tools: Far-Right Forum Network and LDA analysis

We take a computational lens to the analysis of a far-right online forum, using network analysis and natural language processing to underst…
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Gigbox: a research and development toolkit centering workers in the gig economy

Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data a…
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Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
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Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…
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AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
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Yourfeed

Yourfeed is a modular tool for ecologically valid social media research. Designed to mirror the design of a social media newsfeed, Yourfeed…
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Economic growth with mobility network

This project seeks to examine the determinants of economic growth by using large-scale urban mobility networks. Leveraging the fine-grained…
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Fronteras de Papel

Fronteras de Papel es una iniciativa creada por un equipo interdisciplinar de jóvenes interesados en reflexionar, analizar y comunicar prob…
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Resilience of communities in Mexico during COVID-19

In this project we seek to combine data sources to understand the effect of the shock of COVID-19 as well as the recovery dynamics.  W…
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Inequalities and effects of food environments

While much work has been done studying the effect of food environments where we live, less is known about the food environments where we mo…
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Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes

We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outcom…
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Distraction online - subtle accuracy prompts can reduce misinformation on social media

In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and misleading news on social media . Academi…
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Modeling Migration
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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…
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Social Distancing in a Pandemic

What anonymized geolocation data can tell us about the effectiveness of social distancingThe World Health Organization has officially decla…
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Meet the Ganimals

New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
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Deep Angel: The AI behind the aesthetics of absence

Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit.e…
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Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …
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Visualizing patterns of segregation

Segregation, or income inequality, is one of the major problems of our society. Residential segregation has long been of research interest …
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The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility

We used 15 months of data from 1.5 million people to show that four points--approximate places and times--are enough to identify 95 percent…
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Friendship Reciprocity and Behavioral Change

When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we found…
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Social Signals in Biomedicine

We are using non-invasive measurement of social signals found in voice, body movement, and location to quantify symptoms in neurological di…
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Minecraft.Print()

Minecraft is a video game focused on creativity and building. Players build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world�everything fr…
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