Title: Understanding Online Discourse through Social Context and Structured Pragmatics Abstract: In an increasingly online world, understanding discourse on social media is akin to understanding our society. However, when it comes […]
Speaker: Scott E. Page (University of Michigan, Santa Fe Institute). (website) Title: Organizations and Cultural Coherence Abstract: I construct a mathematical framework to elucidate and analyze the interdependence between structural features […]
Title: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis Abstract: This talk will cover work integrating theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, and social […]
TITLE: AI & Social Manipulation ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will overview my decadelong journey into understanding the implications of online platform manipulation. I'll start from detecting malicious bots and other […]
Title: Threat in the form of News: Examining the ways that news coverage of immigration constrains systemically marginalized groups Abstract: Although U.S. media portrayals of racial, ethnic, and other historically excluded identities […]
Title: The emergence of communication in infancy: Development and evolution Abstract: Do gestures truly precede vocalization in modern human development and in the evolutionary origin of language? Or is vocalization […]
Title: Media Representations and Their Broader Implications for Intergroup Relations Abstract: This talk highlights the role of media as an ecosystem in cultivating societal divisions within multicultural contexts. Utilizing […]
