Social sciences - Microsoft Research

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The Rise of Autonomous Experimentation: Technical, Social, and Ethical Implications of AI

In the field of computer science, large-scale experimentation on users is not new: there have been many efforts in both the public and private sectors to analyze users and to create experimental conditions to provoke…

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On high-pass filter artifacts (they’re real) and baseline correction (it’s a good idea) in ERP/ERMF analysis

Darren Tanner, James J. S. Norton, Kara Morgan-Short, Steven J. Luck

Journal of Neuroscience Methods | June 2016, Vol 266: pp. 166-170

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A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model

Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Georgios P. Spithourakis, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan

Proc. of ACL | June 2016

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ICT-Enabled Grievance Redressal in Central India: A Comparative Analysis

Meghana Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, Bill Thies

June 2016

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The Increasing Sophistication of Mobile Media Sharing in Lower-Middle-Class Bangalore

Jacki O'Neill, Kentaro Toyama, Jay Chen, Berthel Tate, Aysha Siddique

June 2016

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Graduate School Between the Lines: Everything but the Dissertation

June 1, 2016 | Vanessa Sochat

I don’t mean to be facetious, but graduate school is not about a thesis. To be tenacious, tangible, and thoughtful, for inspired idea you must be watchful. The most interesting things you might miss because…

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#Trendingistrending: When Algorithms Become Culture

Tarleton Gillespie

Algorithmic Cultures: Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies | Published by Routledge | 2016

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Keyword: Algorithm

Tarleton Gillespie

Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture | Published by Princeton | 2016

(Ben Peters, ed.)

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How Spreadsheets Shape Organizational Life: A Case Study in the Materialities of Information

May 23, 2016 | Paul Dourish

Material manifestations of digital representations — as bits of a disk, signals in a wire, or images on a screen — shape, constrain, and enable various forms of human and social action. Based on a…

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Information Dissemination in Heterogeneous-Intent Networks

Abhimanyu Das, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Emre Kiciman, Onur Varol

Web Science | May 2016