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Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Dennis Jen +5 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +2 more
Project Research

#BeatTheVirus

Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.T...

in Social Machines · Director's Office
David S. Kong · Susan Blumenthal, MD +3 more
#social media #covid19
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 Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Anushka Shah +4 more
#social networks #civic media #data +5 more
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

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

Conversation Trees

An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...

Brandon C. Roy · Bridgit Mendler +1 more
#social networks #social media #data visualization
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
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 · Deb Roy +3 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #entertainment +3 more
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
Project Research

Captions++

Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put...

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Tomer Weller
#communications #social media
Project Research

DeepStream

Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Gordon Mangum
#civic media #social media

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