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Peter Beshai
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation through…
As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
Twitter provides a space for both social and broadcast communication; a tweet by a celebrity can reach millions of users, some of whom may …
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
Public opinion prediction with language models.Media plays an important role in shaping people's beliefs and behaviors.Mass media and socia…
Across most school districts in America, school attendance boundaries play an important role in determining which schools children are assi…
About CloverClover aims to research, design, and deploy a new pro-social media network for tweens and early teens, that promotes positive i…
Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within natu…
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on scho…
See ACL 2020 video here!See in its GitHub repoSharing personal narratives is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior as it helps…
Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.Thi…
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 201…
The ability to automatically understand and infer characters' goals and their emotional states is key towards better narrative comprehensio…
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…
Loneliness is becoming a global epidemic. As many as 33 percent of Americans report being chronically lonely, with similar percentages bein…
The Language Simplification project is developing automatic methods to simplify complex texts to be more easily read and understood by a br…
What is Cortico and the Local Voices Network?Cortico, a non-profit 501(c)(3) in cooperation with MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines, seek…
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children a…
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have m…
The Montessori Method is an educational approach that emphasizes independence and respect for a child's natural development process. Montes…
One of the strongest observations in child language learning is that for a new word to be learned, a semantic association of the word needs…
On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: that …
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is l…
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. Wo…
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and…