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Looking beyond smart cities
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to abse...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to mak...
Tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.
With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.
Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dan, Larson, Kent, Pentland, Alex (Sandy), "The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good," arXiv.org, 2019.
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...
Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change
Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...
Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.
We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...
We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
MIT Technology Review Article featuring LSM research
FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...
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