LocationHarvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room B010 Singer Classroom (lower level) DescriptionDiscrimination and harassment have been p…
Former Visiting Scholar
We live in a culture that depends on technologies to record our behavior and coordinate our actions with billions of other connected people.
LocationUniversity of Cambridge, UK Description
LocationLive on Twitter Description
Research Scientist
Former Lecturer
Former Visiting Assistant Professor
FAQ, videos, and additional information about the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, which will support interdisci…
Matias, J. N. (2017). Governing Human and Machine Behavior in an Experimenting Society (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund today announced $7.6 million in support to nine organizations that aim to bolster…
The problem is that this common sense is wrong. According to J Nathan Matias, a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media a…
Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media
For The Atlantic, Professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, imagines a new kind of social network.
The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…
Media Lab alums, Rob Morris (Affective Computing) and J. Nathan Matias (Civic Media), are among 25 honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 awards.
HostsJoi ItoJoichi "Joi" Ito has been recognized for his work as an activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate of emergent de…
LocationMadison, WI Description
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media
Welcome and introductionCory Doctorow, Journalist, Author, and Co-editor of Boing BoingJoi Ito, Director, MIT Media LabEthan Zuckerman, Dir…
In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.
In the first symposium, CASBS presents a panel discussion among three 2017-18 CASBS fellows supported by the Berggruen Institute: technolog…
DescriptionFrom our friends at the Berkman Center: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/wiklerBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, sec…
Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.
Internet 0 is an experiment at networking at the ultra-lightweight scale. Instead of relying on the architectural notions of Internet 1 wit…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.
Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center are collaborating with MIT scholars to make sure openness and ethics inform AI.
The cross-campus effort will design human-machine systems that improve communication across divides.
LocationNew York City, Paley Center for Media DescriptionMedia Lab grads Danah Boyd and Nathan Eagle, as well as founding chairman Nicholas…
Affective Computing PhD student Matt Groh and other experts offer a few recommendations to help people recognize falsehoods online.
Take a deep dive into new digital technologies with Ramesh Raskar, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, and Neha Narula.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor DescriptionCo-Hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard UniversityFree and Open to…
Former Research Affiliate; Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus
With Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple dominating their respective online markets, we plebeians visit fewer sites than we used to an…
Esra’a Al Shafei is the Founder and Director of Majal, a nonprofit that helps build communities and digital platforms that celebr…
Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.As part of its broader wor…
Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.
Media Lab students, faculty, researchers and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2019
How do people who lead communities on online platforms join together in mass collective action to influence platform operators? Going Dark …
I joined the MIT Media Lab six years ago, as the head of the Center for Civic Media. Nathan Matias was one of my first two students (along …
J. Nathan Matias and Joy Buolamwini are two of Fast Company's four design heroes.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-244 DescriptionThe Interface Ecology Lab (http://ecologylab.net) develops computing as a medium of expression, c…
LocationArbuckle Lounge and Bishop Auditorium, Stanford Business School Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) Informati…
The Society of Mind research group focuses on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. We account for many aspe…
Krikorian, R. "Internet 0: Inter-device Internetworking"
LocationSan Diego, CA Description
Songs released on music streaming services are static, never changing after their initial release. Evolving Media proposes a content p…
Rosalind Picard will be a keynote speaker at the Technology, Mind, and Society Showcase 2020
What are the most pressing challenges confronting governments, industry, and civil society?
McDowell will head civic design at new center, maintain leadership role at Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
The MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were …
The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
LocationFour Seasons Hotel, Istanbul Description