Social sciences
Bury My Heart in Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers
The key to a company’s success is the emotional investment of managers, and the key source of emotional commitment is the ability to use your core values at work. Yet a manager’s job description often…
MSR New England Social Media Research
Each speaker will give a 12 minute presentation of their work and then there will be an open discussion. #1: Amelia Abreu, University of Washington “Tag!: How games and memes create social infrastructure online” This…
A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms
Computational Social Science in Medicine
“Medicine is a social science”, this has been the mantra of public health since 1848. Today, medicine is a computational social science. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of the Global Burden of Disease…
Why Social Computing Is So Hard: The Social-Technical Gap Between Technically Working and Socially Workable
Over the last 20 years, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has identified a base set of findings. These findings are taken almost as assumptions within the field. In summary, they argue that human activity is highly…
