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MIT MEDIA LABThe MIT Media Lab is one of the world’s leading research and academic organizations, where designers, engineers, artists, and scientists strive to create technologies and experiences that enable people to understand and transform their lives, communities, and environments.
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The MIT Media Lab is one of the world’s leading research and academic organizations, where designers, engineers, artists, and scientists strive to create technologies and experiences that enable people to understand and transform their lives, communities, and environments.
Editors
MIT Media Lab
The Media Lab is home to an interdisciplinary research culture where art, science, design, and technology build and play off one another.
Writers
J. Nathan Matias
Citizen social science to improve digital life & hold tech accountable. Assistant Prof, Cornell. citizensandtech.org Prev: Princeton, MIT. Guatemalan-American
Beth Simone Noveck
Prof @Northeastern @ExperientialAI. Director @TheGovLab, @burnescenter BLOG https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog
Sophie Chou
Data journalist and media researcher. I like to find the human stories in data. Former @googlenewslab fellow at Pew Research, and graduate student @medialab.
Sayamindu Dasgupta
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. I build and study toolkits to foster creative learning.
Ethan Zuckerman
Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, Global Voices, Berkman Center. Author of Rewire, published by W.W. Norton RT ≠ endorsement, RT = interesting read.
Joy Buolamwini
Founder Algorithmic Justice League. www.ajl.org | www.poetofcode.com | Telling stories that make daughters of diasporas dream and sons of privilege pause
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/ella)
Associate Prof of Urban Science and Planning, Dept of Urban Studies and Planning. Director, Data + Feminism Lab @ MIT.
MIT Media Lab Learning Initiative
Bringing the collective creativity of the MIT Media Lab to bear on the future of learning > learn.media.mit.edu
Urs Gasser
Dean TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich, previously Executive Director @BKCHarvard
Mitchel Resnick
Professor of Learning Research at MIT Media Lab, director of Lifelong Kindergarten research group, and founder of the Scratch project (http://scratch.mit.edu)
Cristian Jara-Figueroa
PhD student at the MIT Media Lab working on the economic value of knowledge and its implications for regional industrial diversification. @Cristian_jf
Morgan R. Frank
PhD candidate at MIT's Media Laboratory. Using computational methods to address social problems at the Scalable Cooperation research group.
Britney Johnson
PhD Student studying data, learning, and race at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I explored politics and sneaker culture at the MIT Media Lab.
manuj dhariwal
PhD student, MIT Media Lab | Lifelong Kindergarten Group. Passionate about supporting children develop their creative expression, their identity & sense of Self
City Science Network
An international community that shares the common goal to enable more livable, equitable, and resilient communities. Started by MIT City Science.
CoCo - Being. Creative. Together.
A new real-time co-creative platform for young people. Led by Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal - PhD Students, MIT Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten
