This is the third session in the conference on Social Media and Behavioral Economics at Harvard. Session One: Data, Experiments, and Social Networks Session Two: Organ Donation, Power Consumption, and Social Choice Session Three: Malleability vs Serendipity in Social Choice Our moderator, Cass Sunstein, starts out by talking about the […]
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This is the second session on Social Media and Behavioral Economics. Our moderator is David Laibson, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Session One: Data, Experiments, and Social Networks Session Two: Organ Donation, power Consumption, and Social Choice Session Three: Malleability vs Serendipity in Social Choice Sendhil Mullainatha starts out […]
In my upcoming master’s thesis, I’m making large-scale, automated technologies to measure and change the representation of women in news online. Judith Donath, one of my thesis readers, has strongly challenged the assumptions of this project. Can I actually make a good argument that women should have a fair and […]
Learning always requires us to expand the boundaries of our imagination, for individuals and organisations alike. Although innovators often reach for creative disruption, we can also expand our capability to learn through the positive power of inspiration and cooperation. My own capacity for inspiration was reset this week at the […]
In this parallel post alongside one by Denise Cheng, I review the media-making practices of 350.org, who coordinate thousands of events into global days of climate action. I also propose two technology designs for collaboratively tagging and remixing media from an event. Read Denise’s post on the story and mission […]