Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation through…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
We are collaborating with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), the second-largest school district in North Carolina, to create a new f…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
Twitter provides a space for both social and broadcast communication; a tweet by a celebrity can reach millions of users, some of whom may …
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…
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…
Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.Thi…
See ACL 2020 video here!See in its GitHub repoSharing personal narratives is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior as it helps…
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…
An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to a…
The ability to automatically understand and infer characters' goals and their emotional states is key towards better narrative comprehensio…
Loneliness is becoming a global epidemic. As many as 33 percent of Americans report being chronically lonely, with similar percentages bein…
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…
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have m…
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. Wo…
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As play…
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and…
While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is l…