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Using social media to raise awareness of women’s resources
A study in Egypt led by IDSS core faculty Fotini Christia and co-authored by incoming SES student Manuel Quintero suggests ways to spread information for women facing domestic violence.
READ MOREWhy big changes early in life can help later on
A new study led by IDSS affiliate Dean Eckles and SES alum Eaman Jahani shows moving can help foster a more robust social network, by strengthening “long ties” with others.
READ MOREBot detection software isn’t as accurate as it seems
A study by IDSS postdoc Zachary Schutzman and IDSS students Chris Hays, Erin Walk, and Philipp Zimmer finds that general-purpose bot-detection algorithms trained on a particular data set may be highly error-prone when applied in real-world contexts.
READ MOREThe 2023 graduates of IDSS
Congrats to the IDSS graduates of 2023, from our PhDs in Social & Engineering Systems, Master's students in the Technology and Policy Program, and the undergrad and grad students in the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center.
READ MOREFrom ad credibility to shopping habits
SES and IDPS student Amir Tohidi’s research combines economic and psychological insights with advanced computational methods to address interesting real-world problems.
READ MOREExploring new methods for increasing safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles
IDSS core faculty Cathy Wu is co-author of a study that finds human supervisors have the potential to reduce barriers to deploying autonomous vehicles.
READ MORENew research: Twitter bot detection tools aren’t very good
When is a bot not a bot? When it likes a tweet, according to a new paper by researchers including IDSS postdoc Zachary Schutzman that pokes holes in bot detection methodology.
READ MORECelebrating the impact of IDSS
A two-day conference at MIT reflected on the impact of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society since its launch, as founding director Munther Dahleh prepares to step down.
READ MOREIDSS teams receive 2023 Racism Research Awards
The awards from the Office of the Provost support the ambitious research projects of IDSS associate director Fotini Christia and SES student Hammaad Adam.
READ MOREAligning decision-making processes with democratic values
SES student Manon Revel, who works at the intersection of computational social choice and political theory, hopes to uncover ways to improve governance in AI systems, democracies, and corporate environments.
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