Dealing with rapidly spreading wildfires is a complex task that involves the coordination of multiple government agencies and on-site crews…
We have a lot of experience with being productive remotely but far less experience with how people can be creative. Increasingly we ri…
Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
We are building an intelligent musical partner that play duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mor…
We built an inexpensive, portable, micro-projector-based laptop extension the purpose of which is to engage real space in remote interactio…
With Vote Purple '20, we are continuing our work of presenting a cognitive middle ground in media consumption - with a targeted focus on th…
Here is a sampling of MS theses.It is a good idea to have models on which to base your thesis. All theses are measured both by thoroughness…
Seemingly an old TV box which turns out to offer an abundance of control over content selection: each aspect of news can be selected for us…
How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of v…
News reporting today suffers from sensationalism. News agencies are constantly fighting for attention and clicks, leading to headline…
Here we include a suite of projects that migrate information to personal devices and systems instead of centralizes silos. In part this tak…
A functioning society is predicated on an informed and active populace. Our work on broadcast news media analyzes how its unspoken cues inc…
Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. Ho…
Talk radio is a platform which is often overlooked during media analysis, but articles show that talk radio has a large influence on the li…
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ca…
Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.
This Is How is a platform for connecting makers with small businesses through stories. Small businesses share their stories in the form of …
Video or broadcast news is viewed in a far wider set of circumstances than it ever has been before. It is composed with the assumption of a…
Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put t…
Wall of Now is a multi-dimensional media browser of recent news items. It attempts to address our need to know everything by presenting a d…
The physical world is increasingly coming online. We have things that measure, sense, and broadcast to the rest of the world. We call this …
DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …
SuperGlue is a core news research initiative that is a "digestion system" and metadata generator for mass media. An evolving set of analysi…
VR Codes are dynamic data invisibly hidden in television and graphic displays. They allow the display to present simultaneously visual inf…
This project builds a social, place-based information window into the Media Lab using 30 touch-sensitive screens strategically placed throu…