3 Questions: Sherry Turkle on “Reclaiming Conversation”
MIT professor talks about our need for face-to-face dialogue, in families, classrooms, and workplaces.
Breaking down social networks in a city
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
Social networking
Sinan Aral studies peer effects and influence, with an eye toward tackling pressing social problems.
Social media tools that can save you time
MIT social media strategist Stephanie Hatch Leishman highlights applications and resources that can streamline your workflow: Feedly, Flickr, Hootsuite, and IFTTT.
Making photos their business
MIT alumni took their photo-aggregating app to market with help from the Institute.
Researchers develop new method for understanding network connections
Technique could be applied to the study of disease, social networks and other diverse fields.
Diversifying your online world
In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
Finding good music in noisy online markets
MIT researchers revisit data from a seminal online experiment but draw more encouraging conclusions.
Questions about social media or email marketing? MIT specialist has answers
Stephanie Hatch is MIT’s first social media and email marketing specialist. As the Institute’s central resource for digital strategies, she can advise those new to social media as well as those who want to take it to the next level.
Many man-made and natural networks have same underlying architecture
In first DES4, Albert-László Barabási explains the concept of scale-free networks using the Web.
Searching for balloons in a social network
The key to mobilizing large numbers of people is incentives, study finds.
MIT and Cornell face off in real battle over fake alumni
MIT and Cornell alumni are battling over which TV, movie, or game characters with fictional degrees from their institutions have the 'potential to offer the greatest contributions to society.'