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Peter Beshai
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has bee...
Twitter provides a space for both social and broadcast communication; a tweet by a celebrity can reach millions of users, some of whom ma...
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design output...
Public opinion prediction with language models.Media plays an important role in shaping people's beliefs and behaviors.Mass media and soc...
Across most school districts in America, school attendance boundaries play an important role in determining which schools children are as...
About CloverClover aims to research, design, and deploy a new pro-social media network for tweens and early teens, that promotes positive...
Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within na...
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...
See ACL 2020 video here!See in its GitHub repoSharing personal narratives is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior as it hel...
Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.T...
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...
The ability to automatically understand and infer characters' goals and their emotional states is key towards better narrative comprehens...
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
Loneliness is becoming a global epidemic. As many as 33 percent of Americans report being chronically lonely, with similar percentages be...
The Language Simplification project is developing automatic methods to simplify complex texts to be more easily read and understood by a ...
What is Cortico and the Local Voices Network?Cortico, a non-profit 501(c)(3) in cooperation with MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines, se...
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to mak...
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children...
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have...
The Montessori Method is an educational approach that emphasizes independence and respect for a child's natural development process. Mont...
One of the strongest observations in child language learning is that for a new word to be learned, a semantic association of the word nee...
On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: tha...
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is...
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...