Lazer Lab

Conventional wisdom assumes that increased censorship will strictly decrease access to information. We...

Prior work established the benefits of server-recorded user engagement measures (e.g. clickthrough rates) for improving the results of...

The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against...

We examine the social antecedents of contributing to campaigns, with a particular focus on the role of population density and social networking...

Recent studies show the remarkable power of fine-grained information disclosed by users on social network sites to infer users’ personal...

Real-world institutions dealing with social dilemma situations are based on mechanisms that are rarely implemented without flaw. Usually real-...

Manual annotations are a prerequisite for many applications of machine learning. However, weaknesses in the annotation process itself are easy to...

The present work proposes the use of social media as a tool for better understanding the relationship between a journalists' social network and...