Social sciences
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
One of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, under-appreciated tool—one that has been available to us since childhood. Questioning—deeply, imaginatively, “beautifully”—can help us identify…
Big Dream Trailer #1
Big Dream is documentary film that follows the stories of seven young women in technology fields around the globe. Each story takes a look at these young women’s ambitions and how they overcome personal challenges…
It’s Harder Than It Looks: What Musicians Can Teach Us About Engaging Markets
FutureM 2013 session with Nancy Baym: Social Media seems to be a marketers dream with so many ways to reach and listen to current and…
HereHere: Provoking Hyperlocal Conversations
HereHere NYC enables neighborhoods to generate opinions based on public data. We sum up how your neighborhood, or other NYC neighborhoods you care about, are doing via daily email digest, neighborhood-specific Twitter feeds, and status…
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd…
DIOSI: Dynamics of intimacy from online social interactions
Friendships are dynamic. In this project, we uncover the dynamics of tie strength and online social interactions in terms of various aspects, such as reciprocity, temporality, and contextually. Based upon these dynamics, we build a…