The latest issue of Media, Culture, and Society features an open-access discussion section responding to SMC all-stars danah boyd and Kate Crawford's "Critical Questions for Big Data." Though the article is only a few years old, it's been very influential and a lot has happened since it came out, so editors Aswin Punathambekar and Anastasia Kavada commissioned …
Category: Interns
Presentation; Between Platforms and Community: Moderators on Reddit
Presentation by intern Nathan Matias on the project he worked on during the summer at the SMC. He has continued to work on his research, so in case you have not read it here is a more updated post on his work: Followup: 10 Factors Predicting Participation in the Reddit Blackout. Building Statistical Models of …
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Co-creation and Algorithmic Self-Determination: A study of player feedback on game analytics in EVE Online
We are happy to share SMC's intern Aleena Chia's presentation of her summer project titled "Co-creation and Algorithmic Self-Determination: A study of player feedback on game analytics in EVE Online". Aleena's project summary and the videos of her presentation below: Digital games are always already information systems designed to respond to players’ inputs with …
Followup: 10 Factors Predicting Participation in the Reddit Blackout. Building Statistical Models of Online Behavior through Qualitative Research
Three weeks ago, I shared dataviz and statistical models predicting participation in the Reddit Blackout in July 2015. Since then, many moderators have offered feedback and new ideas for the data analysis, alongside their own stories. Earlier today, I shared this update with redditors. UPDATE, Sept 16, 9pm ET: Redditors brilliantly spotted an important gap in …
Introducing the 2015 MSR SMC PhD Interns!
Well, after a truly exciting spell of reviewing an AMAZING set of applications for our 2015 PhD Internship Program, we had the absolutely excruciating task of selecting just a few from the pool (note: this is our Collective's least favorite part of the process). Without further ado, we are pleased to announce our 2015 Microsoft Research SMC PhD interns: …
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