Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Publication

Platforms are not Intermediaries

Tarleton Gillespie

Georgetown Law and Technology Review | July 2018, Vol 2(2): pp. 198

Project

Publication

Using Longitudinal Social Media Analysis to Understand the Effects of Early College Alcohol Use

Emre Kiciman, Scott Counts, Melissa Gasser

In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-18) | June 2018

Event

Microsoft Research @ STOC 2018

June 25, 2018 – June 29, 2018 | Los Angeles, California

Microsoft is proud to also be sponsoring the inaugural TC Women Meeting. TCS Women is a new community for women researchers in Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) and related areas.

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Publication

Multi-Round Influence Maximization

Lichao Sun, Weiran Huang, Philip S. Yu, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’2018), London, United Kingdom, August 2018 | June 2018

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Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media

Tarleton Gillespie

Published by Yale University Press | June 2018

ISBN: 9780300173130

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A Study of the Organizational Dynamics of Software Teams

Michael Hilton, Andrew Begel

CSE-SEIP ’18 – Software Engineering in Practice Track | May 2018

Video

Living, Learning and Creating with Social Robots

May 29, 2018 | Cynthia Breazeal

Social robots are designed to interact with people in an interpersonal way, engaging and supporting collaborative social and emotive behavior for beneficial outcomes. In a time where citizens are beginning to live with intelligent machines…

Living, Learning and Creating with Social Robots

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Publication

Liberation Through Radical Decentralization

Vitalik Buterin, E. Glen Weyl

Medium | May 2018

Video

Ethics and Diversity in AI

May 17, 2018 | Tess Posner

Artificial intelligence is powering the fourth industrial revolution and has been called the “new electricity.” The global economic impact of AI applications is expected to reach $2.95 trillion by 2025, and we’re already seeing AI…

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Publication

From Internet Access to Internet Skills: Digital Inequality among Older Adults

Eszter Hargittai, Anne Marie Piper, Meredith Ringel Morris

Universal Access in Information Society | May 2018, pp. 1-10