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Americans have become less willing to explore their own cities

In a new study, researchers from MIT and other universities show that personal mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't fully recovered.
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Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable

Hawkins, R.D., Berdahl, A.M., Pentland, A.‘. et al. Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01682-x
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Study: Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.
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Measuring and reducing social segregation in cities

We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
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On Social Media, Sharing Mindset Makes People Worse at Judging Accuracy

Newly published research shows that a focus on sharing can make it harder for social media users to tell whether content is accurate.
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On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy

An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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How to Save Democracy: A new study gives clues for how to fix America’s political culture

Of 25 proposed interventions for democracy tested, one developed by Human Dynamics researchers was among the most effective.
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CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Brandon Roy, and Deb Roy. 2022. CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 6818–6826, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Can Technology Help Humans Listen?

Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.
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Dust, costumes, weirdness — and science: Burning Man is back

Ziv Epstein talks about his latest research project, which will attempt to "map the networks of cooperation and serendipity at Burning Man."
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Scalable Cooperation

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

Creating technology for social change
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The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps

In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.
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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 to…
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The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Calacci, Dan, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland. "The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good." Presented at the Oxford & London School of Economics Connected Life conference. (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09350
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Future bright: SA data scientist awarded scholarship to study at MIT in Massachusetts

Lynn Cameron highlights Human Dynamics student Tobin South and his path from the University of Adelaide to the Media Lab.
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When two heads aren’t better than one

Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.
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Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
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Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
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What every engineer and computer scientist should know: The biggest contributor to happiness

Rosalind Picard presents some principles that engineers and computer scientists can use to create meaningful, authentic human relationships.
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Increased Urban Segregation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…
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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. Wo…
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Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create

But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.
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Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
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MIT’s Deb Roy analyzes divisions caused by social media-dominated world

In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.
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An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.
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Modeling Migration
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Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility

Saa, I.L., Novak, M., Morales, A.J. et al. Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility. Appl Netw Sci 5, 70 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00308-9
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Voter Education through Network Analytics

In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to absent…
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Learning Loops

Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …
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Managing the flow of ideas in a pandemic

Tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.
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It's time for next-generation remote collaboration

With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.
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Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
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A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
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How to foster innovation in your workplace

Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change
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Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
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Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes this …
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Conversation Trees

An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to a…
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What we learned from analyzing thousands of stories on the Christchurch shooting

Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.
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The next great (digital) extinction

We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
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Structural and temporal patterns of the first global trading market

We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
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Social Sensors for Automatic Data Collection

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