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 […]
This past Sunday, like most Americans, I watched the Super Bowl. And, like most Americans who watched the Super Bowl, I saw a lot of ads. Some were good. Some were not. Some I have already forgotten. But one, in particular, I have not: Dodge’s “So God Made a Farmer”: […]
Last month at the Center for Civic Media we held CrisisCamp Boston – an event that is part of the global Crisis Commons organization and sprung out of the Hurricane Hackers group that began life in the Center for Civic Media. There were three motivations for organizing the event: to […]
liveblog of an MIT Facebook recruiting event by Matt Stempeck, Rodrigo Davies, and Chris Peterson (slide doctored by mstem) We’ve had all of our data on Facebook for years. And advertisers have used Facebookâs self-service ad-buying platform, similar to Graph Search, to segment and target ads at us for years. […]