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Social Mirror

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are over one million registered charities in the United States alone, and many more worldwide. How do you choose among them? M...
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Shelley: Human-AI Collaborated Horror Stories

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

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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Nightmare Machine

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

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

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