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The internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for social scientists to recruit a large pool of subjects quickly, cheaply, and virtually effortlessly. Online labor markets, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), is one place where social scientists can easily find subjects to participate in unique cooperation studies in exchange for cash (where pay depends on choices in the study, rather just a flat rate). These labor markets also facilitate field studies, where ‘subjects’ are unaware they are in an experiment, but instead think they are just completing normal work tasks.
Dave Rand—a Cooperation Fellow at the Berkman Center, as well as a Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics—describes designing and running experiments using MTurk, some successful experiments, and the lessons learned thus far.
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November 2nd, 2010
Founders of companies often experience early sins of omission or commission which decrease the probability of ultimate success.
John Chory—chair of the WilmerHale Venture Group and a member of the Corporate Practice Group—focuses on the representation of early-stage and venture-backed technology and life sciences companies. In this talk he discusses issues affecting startup companies, and some of the more common mistakes made by startups, many of which are not at all obvious.
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October 28th, 2010
Founders of companies often experience early sins of omission or commission which decrease the probability of ultimate success.
John Chory—chair of the WilmerHale Venture Group and a member of the Corporate Practice Group—focuses on the representation of early-stage and venture-backed technology and life sciences companies. In this talk he discusses issues affecting startup companies, and some of the more common mistakes made by startups, many of which are not at all obvious.
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October 28th, 2010
Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Joseph Reagle—a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society—discusses insights from his new book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia’s historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.
See Charles Nesson’s recent blogpost about Good Faith Collaboration
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October 19th, 2010
Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Joseph Reagle—a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society—discusses insights from his new book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia’s historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.
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October 19th, 2010
Changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. Despite online information abundance, there are issues with studying groups who keep the important data behind firewalls. Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of internet-mediated political advocacy groups in America.
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October 12th, 2010
Changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. Despite online information abundance, there are issues with studying groups who keep the important data behind firewalls. Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of internet-mediated political advocacy groups in America.
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October 12th, 2010
A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A thriving research effort has produced high-quality differentially private solutions for a wide range of data analysis tasks.
In this talk, Cynthia Dwork—a theoretical computer scientist and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research—gives a feel for the broad spectrum of things that can be done by accessing information through a privacy-preserving programming interface, and touches on some privacy problems arising in the context of behavioral targeting.
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September 28th, 2010
A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A thriving research effort has produced high-quality differentially private solutions for a wide range of data analysis tasks.
In this talk, Cynthia Dwork—a theoretical computer scientist and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research—gives a feel for the broad spectrum of things that can be done by accessing information through a privacy-preserving programming interface, and touches on some privacy problems arising in the context of behavioral targeting.
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September 28th, 2010
Debates are raging about reduced attention spans and information overload — with particular focus on young people being at risk. How do we manage the increasing demands of network connectivity, from mobiles, email, and social media?
Sharing early findings from a large, three-year study of mobile media use in Australia, Dr Kate Crawford — author of Adult Themes and Associate Professor in Media Research at the University of New South Wales — brings an historical context to the idea of noise, and gives a snapshot of how ‘mobile social spheres’ are developing, especially among young people.
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August 4th, 2010
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