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Project Research

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...

Abhimanyu Dubey · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#artificial intelligence #social media #imaging
Project Research

Norman

We present Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman was inspired by the fact that the data used to teach a machine learning algorithm ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Pinar Yanardag · Manuel Cebrian +1 more
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +27 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#social networks #art #artificial intelligence +33 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +23 more
Research
Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #art +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

The next great (digital) extinction

We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.

via Wired · Oct. 8, 2018
in Director's Office
#social networks #networks #social media +2 more
Project Research

Social Mirror

Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...

in Social Machines
Ann Yuan · Nabeel Gillani +1 more
#social networks #politics #social media
Article Research

MIT’s new tool erases anything (or anyone) from old photos

The reality distortion field is real, and it’s getting better every day.

via Fast Company · Oct. 8, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media
Research
Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +22 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Empowerment-Based Design and Evaluation of Civic Technology

Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Erhardt Graeff
#civic media #civic technology #politics +2 more
Project Research

Predicting Perceived Emotions in Animated GIFs with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largel...

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen
#crowdsourcing #social media
Project Research

FiftyNifty

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...

in Viral Communications
Britney Johnson · Andrew Lippman +4 more
#communications #data #government +2 more
Project Research

Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +6 more
Article Research

Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create

MIT Technology Review Article featuring LSM research

via MIT Technology Review · Aug. 23, 2018
in Social Machines · Civic Media
#social networks #politics #social media
Article Research

Sydney Levine – Encoding Morality into Machines

The morality of preschoolers, trolleys, cookie-eating squirrels, and attempting to define “the consensus” with the Moral Machine Project.

via GLiMPSE Podcast · June 27, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Project Research

Identifying the Human Impacts of Climate Change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...

in Scalable Cooperation
Nick Obradovich · Manuel Cebrian +4 more
#environment #government #health +5 more
Project Research

DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Bjarke Felbo +1 more
#communications #data #social media +2 more
Project Research

The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...

in Social Machines
Eric Chu · Soroush Vosoughi +3 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #entertainment +3 more
Archived
Project Research

The Spread of True and False Information Online

We investigated the spread of all of the verified news stories–verified as either true or false–distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017....

in Social Machines
Soroush Vosoughi · Deb Roy
#social media
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Rumor Gauge: Automatic Detection and Verification of Rumors on Twitter

The spread of malicious or accidental misinformation in social media, especially in time-sensitive situations, such as real-world emergen...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Soroush Vosoughi
#social media
Archived
Article Research

What is innovation in local TV news? Andrew Heyward’s new mission is to find out

Andrew Heyward has a plan for finding and identifying innovation in local TV news.

via Nieman Lab · May 16, 2018
in Social Machines
#civic media #social media
Archived
Project Research

Shout!

Can I borrow your network? Shout! is a marketplace for retweets that allows people to exchange micro-contracts for future retweets. Shout...

in Collective Learning
Cesar A. Hidalgo
#social media
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Mission Wildlife

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...

Ethan Zuckerman · Poseidon Ho +1 more
#augmented reality #civic media #civic technology +9 more
Archived
Article Research

Machines now know how to terrorise humans

The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.

via CCCBLab · May 13, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Article Research

Fear, surprise, disgust: Fake news spreads faster than some real news on Twitter

Plus: A big overview of all the research that we have so far.

via Nieman Lab · March 9, 2018
in Social Machines
#social media
Project Research

Gobo

Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Yasmine (Jasmin) Rubinovitz · Alexis Hope +2 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +2 more
Article Research

It's not just you: Dark clouds are linked with darker moods

Weather really can affect our mood—or at least the way we express our emotions on social media, according to a study published Wednesday ...

via Newsweek · April 25, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#social media #climate change
Project Research

Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Anushka Shah +4 more
#civic media #data #social media +1 more
Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman
#robotics #design #computer vision +39 more
Project Research

CivilServant: User-Led Randomized Trials Online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence · Civic Media
J Nathan Matias · Ethan Zuckerman
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +3 more
Publication Research

The Spread of True and False News Online

S. Vosoughi, D. Roy, S. Aral. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science. Vol 359, Iss 6380. Mar 09 2018.

Article, March 2018
in Social Machines
#social media
Article Research

Anxious about climate change? There’s a cow-farting-methane emoji for that.

Move aside, smiley faces, clapping hands and dancing ladies. Emoji are finally ready to tackle serious issues....The project may be the f...

via Washington Post · Jan. 30, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#environment #social media
Article Research

AI is working to make moviegoers more emotional

An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.

via PSFK · Jan. 2, 2018
in Social Machines
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

Honest Crowds

The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Lijun Sun +2 more
#government #social media #social science
Publication Research

Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments

Frank, M. R., Cebrian, M., Pickard, G., & Rahwan, I. (2017). Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments. PloS one, 12(5), e0177385.

Article, May 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#government #social media #social science
Article Research

MIT trained an AI to tug at your heartstrings (and purse strings)

Researchers want to know what images make us feel more attached to other people. They call their project “Deep Empathy.”

via Fast Co.Design · Dec. 12, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media #imaging +1 more
Project Research

MyGoodness

There are over one million registered charities in the United States alone, and many more worldwide. How do you choose among them? M...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Edmond Awad
#artificial intelligence #social media
Project Research

Shelley: Human-AI Collaborated Horror Stories

Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Pinar Yanardag · Manuel Cebrian +1 more
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +3 more
Article Research

"El robot que escribe libros de terror" Oppenheimer Presenta # 1741

Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer. 

via Oppenheimer Presenta · Dec. 5, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Article Research

AI is learning how to make you cry at the movies

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.

via Fast Co.Design · Dec. 12, 2017
in Social Machines
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Article Research

AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.

via McKinsey & Company: Media & Entertainment · Dec. 11, 2017
in Social Machines
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Article Research

A team of MIT scientists taught an AI to get emotional over movies

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachuset...

via Variety · Dec. 11, 2017
in Social Machines
#artificial intelligence #social media #storytelling +1 more
Article Research

Climate Conversations, S2E3: How will Human Beings Adapt to a Changing Climate?

How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversatio...

via ClimateX · Dec. 7, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #environment #social media
Article Research

The robots are coming

…We may have helped create the AI monster here in the Hub, but it turns out we’re also the ones fighting to keep it on a leash, with a Ju...

via Boston Magazine · Nov. 12, 2017
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #social media
Archived
Project Research

Deep Empathy

What would your city look like after a disaster? Deep Empathy is a collaboration between the Scalable Coope...

in Scalable Cooperation
Pinar Yanardag · Manuel Cebrian +3 more
#artificial intelligence #social media #imaging +1 more
Archived
Article Research

AI and the future of work

At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discusses how can we anticipate and respond to major disruptions from artificial intelligence, the web, and s...

via MIT Technology Review · Nov. 27, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media #machine learning
Article Research

An artificial intelligence bot writes stories of the macabre

“Shelley” is an artificial intelligence bot who writes stories inspired by a subreddit of aspiring horror writers.

via Atlas Obscura · Oct. 30, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

MIT researchers trained an AI to write horror stories based on 140,000 Reddit posts

Sometimes the scariest place to be is your own mind. Or Reddit at night.Shelley is an AI program that generates the beginnings of horror ...

via Quartz · Oct. 31, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

Think AI is scary already? This software writes its own horror stories

Shelley's artificial neural network takes turns with humans in collaborative storytelling.

via Washington Post · Oct. 30, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

MIT researchers bring a horror fiction-writing robot named Shelley to life

With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ...

via Fortune · Oct. 30, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

These horror stories created by artificial intelligence are the stuff of nightmares

An artificial intelligence is creating worlds where possessed dolls and other creatures chase after frightened, helpless h...

via Newsweek · Oct. 25, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?

With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.

via MIT News · Oct. 27, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +2 more
Post Research

Can AI learn to scare us? With Shelley, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps

Introducing Shelley: the world’s first AI-human horror story collaboration

Oct. 24, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social media #machine learning
Article Research

An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter

Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.

via Technology Review · Aug. 3, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #social media
Archived
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability

#art #consumer electronics #crowdsourcing +10 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

The FiftyNifty challenge

FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.

Feb. 15, 2017
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +2 more
Project Research

The Electome: Measuring Responsiveness in the 2016 Election

The Electome: Where AI Meets Political JournalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Russell Stevens +8 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Publication Research

If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts

Almaatouq, Abdullah, Erez Shmueli, Mariam Nouh, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Vivek K. Singh, Mansour Alsaleh, Abdulrahman Alarifi, and Anas Alfaris. "If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts." International Journal of Information Security 15, no. 5 (2016): 475-491.

Article, April 2016
in Human Dynamics
#social media
Publication Research

Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking

Peter Krafft, Kaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2017). Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Academic Paper, March 2017
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #collective intelligence
Publication Research

Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science. ACM, 2014.

Academic Paper, June 2014
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #social robotics +1 more
Article Research

Beyond Viral

The golden age of social media coincides with a worldwide leadership crisis, manifested by our seeming inability to address any major glo...

via Communications of the ACM · April 1, 2016
in Human Dynamics · Scalable Cooperation
#social media
Project Research

FlipFeed

FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...

in Social Machines
Martin Saveski · Ann Yuan +3 more
#social networks #data #networks +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Responsive Communities: Pilot Project in Jun, Spain

To gain insights into how digital technologies can make local governments more responsive and deepen citizen engagement, we are studying ...

Deb Roy · Martin Saveski +1 more
#civic media #social media
Archived
Publication Research

What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future

Graeff, E. 2013. ‘What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future.’ Presented at Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Cambridge, May 5.

Article, May 2013
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #social media
Project Research

Nightmare Machine

For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotio...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Manuel Cebrian +2 more
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +2 more
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Who Answers Questions on Twitter?

Many Twitter users post questions with hashtags like #twoogle or #lazyweb. Is this an effective way to find expert answers beyond one's n...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias
#social media
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