Internet censorship is an (in)visible threat that is increasingly becoming more pervasive around the world -- often impacting vulnerable communities the most. Today, nearly every country experiences ...

AI companies are deploying autonomous AI agents that can plan and execute complex tasks with only limited human involvement. While existing legal frameworks offer insight into the safety and ethical ...

The Applied Social Media Lab is excited to open its doors for a Spring Synthesizer bringing together current projects, new ideas, and engaging conversations between those passionate about the future ...

Can artificial intelligence supplant friendship by providing quality communication? No, argues Jeffrey Hall: "It may taste like friendship, but it lacks the fundamental ingredients." ...

Jessica Fjeld calls for coalition between movement technologists and movement lawyers to push for structural changes in the face of advancing authoritarianism. "Movement technologists should reconnect ...

"Facebook has many faces—different teams working towards different goals, and engaging with different ministries, institutions, scholars, and civil society organizations." Affiliate Chinmayi Arun ...

"These cybercrime conventions were never just about cybercrime. The stakes are higher: these conventions are tools in contesting the broader political global order." Faculty Associate Mailyn Fidler ...

Social media is undergoing a transformation toward open Internet technologies. What will that future look like? And how will this affect the pressing needs of users: algorithmic choice, less toxicity, ...

"It is time to stop treating disinformation as a user behavior problem and start seeing it for what it is: a structural, infrastructural, and systemic problem engineered by design." Faculty Associate ...

“A piece of performance art, or simply marketing, that involved using a pen name.” Director and Faculty Chair, Jonathan Zittrain comments on Andrea Colmedici's AI generated book meant demonstrate how ...

This wiki page has been my main home page since June 2013. My latest book is Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016). It's available in paperback, hardback, and many open-access editions (same text, ...