Category Archives: Papers & Presentations

Misa Maruyama Dissertation Defense

Committee and candidate (l-r): Rich Gazan, Scott Robertson (Chair), Misa Maruyama, Bryan Semaan (HICHI alum on screen), Jenifer Winter, Dan Suthers, and Marie Iding.

Committee and candidate (l-r): Rich Gazan, Scott Robertson (Chair), Misa Maruyama, Bryan Semaan (HICHI alum on screen), Jenifer Winter, Dan Suthers, and Marie Iding.

Congratulations to Misa Maruyama, who successfully defended her dissertation, Using Social Media to Learn about and Discuss a Civic Broadcast: Interaction, Community and Cognitive Elaboration, today. Good job!

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Tay’s Bad Day

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Microsoft released a social chatbot, Tay, which was supposed to learn how to be chatty by interacting with people on the Internet. Instead, it was led frighteningly astray by trolls and had to be put down after one day. Scott ruminates about it in Tay’s Bad Day on medium.com.

HICHI Study Highlighted in Journalist’s Resource

JR-logo-4a-flatJournalist’s Resource, a project of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, highlighted a HICHI Lab article in their December 3 post: “How Facebook influences Millennials’ politics.

Congratulations to authors Sara Douglas, Roxanne Raine, Mara Maruyama, Bryan Semaan, and Scott Robertson

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Information Polity Publication

Congratulations to lab members Sara Douglas, Roxanne Raine, and Misa Maruyama, and lab alumnus Bryan Semaan, on our latest publication:

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Sara Douglas, Roxanne B Raine, Mara Maruyama, Bryan Semaan, Scott P Robertson. 2015. Community matters: How young adults use Facebook to evaluate political candidates. Information Polity 20 (2, 3), 135-150

http://content.iospress.com/articles/information-polity/ip362

HICHI at CSST 2015

The 2015 Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) is being attended by Scott Robertson, graduate student Misa Maruyama, and former HICHI postdoc Bryan Semaan. Here are Misa and Bryan taking a little downtime on the deck of The Nature Center in Colorado.MisaAndBryanAtCSST

Keynote at the Copenhagen Seminar on Computational Social Science

cbsScott Robertson will deliver the keynote address at the 2014 Copenhagen Seminar on Computational Social Science. The keynote title is “The Core of Data Science Is Human Science.” The seminar takes place on Dec. 4, 2014 at Copenhagen Business School. Other talks are by Sune Lehman, Luca Rossi, Michael Carl, Daniel Hardt, Sean Goggins, Nicolai Pogrebnyakov, and (HICHI alum) Ravi Vatrapu.