Are you a PhD student who is doing research that uses methods of causal inference (randomized trials, natural experiments, etc) on social media and user generated data? If so, I have good news, of a last minute addition to the AAAI Spring Symp. on Observational Studies through Social Media and […]
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Today, MIT President Rafael Reif announced an exciting collaboration between MIT and the Boston University School of Law “to assist students with a broad range of legal matters related to entrepreneurship and cyber law, from basic issues associated with the founding of startup companies to novel questions about the application […]
In the past month, I’ve been privileged to publish two articles in The Atlantic’s Technology section and several posts over at Microsoft Research’s Social Media Collective. I’m posting links to them here so anyone following on RSS or checking my archives can be aware of them. The Tragedy of the […]
What legal routes are available to people facing online harassment, and what policies might need to be changed to better address this issue? Today at the MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing Colloquium, we were joined by Danielle Keats Citron (@daniellecitron), author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, a book that describes the […]
This post was liveblogged by J. Nathan Matias, Ethan Zuckerman, Erhardt Graeff, Lilia Kilburn, with illustrations by Willow Brugh Jill Dimond lives in Ann Arbor Michigan, and hails from rural Western Michigan. The logo for her company, Sassafras, evokes the shape of the state of Michigan. After a degree at […]