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What kinds of online harassment do women in Pakistan face, and what can we learn from Pakistan for our efforts to protect people around the world? (this liveblog was written with Mariel García M) Last week at the Berkman Klein Center, we were privileged to hear from Nighat Dad, a […]

What is the state of the “empiricism agenda” to understand “what works” in policy? And what is it that we don’t know? I’m here at the What Works Global Summit (WWGS) in London, where David Halpern and Peter John are discussing the role of randomized trials in society. The WWGS […]

What role does social media play in supporting collective action, and how do people organize to change social media systems themselves? I’m here in Oxford for the 2016 Internet Politics and Policy conference, hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Yesterday, I shared a paper on The Civic Labor of Online […]

Online harassment has been an enduring and evolving social concern for over 40 years, yet many of the most urgent empirical questions for public well-being and freedom remain unexplored. Nor can our answers currently evolve at the pace of socio-technical change. On August 17th and 18th, we worked with Jigsaw […]

How are mass collaboration and open data changing the ways we do social science? While we’re used to thinking about data science as a major impact of computation on the study of human behavior, changes in scientific collaboration are driving even more fundamental change in the study of human behavior. […]