After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can’t deliver. Last week, he came to MIT to share the insights […]
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Javascript Developer for Live Streaming Site MIT’s Center for Civic Media is developing a new platform to add contextual information to live streaming video and search across multiple live streaming services, allowing viewers to more deeply engage with live streams. The site is built on Meteor.js and we currently have […]
What are impacts of algorithms on workers, and how do they respond to being managed by algorithms? Today at the Cooperation Working Group at Berkman, we welcomed Min Kyung Lee, a research scientist at CMU’s Center for Machine Learning and Health. Today, she shared her work to identify biases in […]
This is a liveblog from the “Political Work” panel at AoIR16 on October 24, 2015 in Phoenix, AZ. This is not a transcript but recreation of people’s comments. Any errors are my own. Architecture for Understanding the Automated Imaginary: A Working Qualitative Methodology for Research on Political BotsNorah Abokhodair, Samuel […]
Here at the 16th conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, I attended a talk by Stuart Geiger, who is doing helpful work to theorize the role of block bots in conversation on the Internet. Over the years, Stuart’s thinking has been deeply influential to my own approach. I’ve written […]