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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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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
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Crowdsourcing Search: The Red Balloon Challenge

In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...

in Scalable Cooperation
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#crowdsourcing #social media #social science +2 more
Archived
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
Archived
Project Research

Reach

Reach merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop data from services users already ...

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman
#communications #social media #wellbeing
Archived
Project Research

Comm.unity

Comm.unity is a platform that implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized serve...

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Nadav Aharony
#communications #networks #social media +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Crowdsourcing a Manhunt

People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Sohan Dsouza
#crowdsourcing #social media #social science +2 more
Archived
Article Research

Electome Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election

Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election

via MIT News · Sept. 26, 2016
in Social Machines
#data #government #social media

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