Understanding how people make sense of information in the information age
Graduate student Manon Revel uses quantitative methodologies to investigate how advertising in online publications affects trust in journalism.
Graduate student Manon Revel uses quantitative methodologies to investigate how advertising in online publications affects trust in journalism.
Eaman Jahani examines how resources are distributed across networks as a social and engineering systems PhD student at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
Series paints a holistic picture of summer youth employment programs and how research helps strengthen them.
MIT political scientist explains the responsibilities leaders have for shaping and sharing factual, truthful information in the nation's political discourse.
Several of the winning innovations apply artificial intelligence to solutions for challenges to national security.
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.
DUSP alumni Rushil Palavajjhala and Jacob Kohn empower vulnerable workers using social entrepreneurial and technical skills gained at MIT.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
Machine learning system from MIT CSAIL can look at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — and also knows when to defer to a radiologist.
Study finds social media sharing affects news judgment, but a quick exercise reduces the problem.
Though the MIT community was spread around the world due to Covid-19, graduates and their families celebrated magic moments through social posts.
Postdoc Izabella Pena uses social media to combat the infodemic about the Covid-19 pandemic.
WiDS Cambridge, co-hosted by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, recognizes and empowers women in STEM across a variety of disciplines.
Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics.