Making sense of the election A panel of Penn political scientists, including Warren Center faculty affiliate Diana Mutz, helped a virtual audience make sense of the presidential election and what comes next. Communication Political Science caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed In a revised and updated edition of For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter argue that applying the lessons of gamification could change your business, the way you learn or teach, and even your life. Legal Studies & Business Ethics caret-arrow Ubiquity of Data
How did echo chambers influence the 2020 election? Research from Sandra González-Bailón shows that people are consuming news from more diverse sources, but many don’t consume any news at all. It’s too soon to tell what role that played in the recent race for president. Communication caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
How Data Science Can Help Marketers Manage Unprecedented Disruption Recently, Barbara Kahn, executive director of MSI and Wharton Marketing Professor, sat down with Kartik Hosanagar and Raghuram Iyengar. They discussed how AI and analytics can be used for governance and risk mitigation, and how algorithms can be used to manage disruption in unpredictable times. Marketing caret-arrow Ubiquity of Data
Mobile Phones Help Americans Encounter More Diverse News In a new study published in PNAS, Sandra González-Bailón found that contrary to the conventional wisdom about segregated news bubbles, mobile devices are exposing Americans to a much greater variety of news, diversifying the stories that people encounter and exposing them to a breadth of information sources. Communication caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
The role of data in a world reshaped by COVID-19 Experts across Penn, including Warren Center affiliates Duncan Watts, Maria Cuellar, Shane Jensen, and Jason Moore, share their insights on how data and data science affect their fields in the context of an ongoing pandemic. Biomedical Informatics Communication Computer and Information Science Criminology Operations Information and Decisions Statistics caret-arrow Ubiquity of Data
Amazon Scholars Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth discuss the ethics of machine learning Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, two of the world’s leading experts on algorithmic bias, look back at the events of the past year and reflect on what we’ve learned, what we’re still grappling with, and how far we have to go. Computer and Information Science caret-arrow Social Norms for Algorithms
Why Social Media Makes Us More Polarized and How to Fix It Facebook has become a battleground among partisan “echo chambers.” But what is it about social media that makes people so polarized? According to Damon Centola's Scientific American op-ed, research shows it’s the influencers, not the networks themselves, that amplify differences between us. Communication caret-arrow Consensus and Contagion in Society
Outside Their Bubbles The Undergraduate Data Science Hangout, organized by Bhuvnesh Jain, connects students and faculty across seemingly disparate disciplines. This summer, researchers from 10 departments covered 22 topics ranging from virus tracking to electoral politics to the universe’s expansion. Physics and Astronomy Statistics caret-arrow Ubiquity of Data
Eleni Katifori awarded the 2021 APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research Congratulations to Eleni Katifori, who has been awarded the 2021 APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research for her work "For the seminal use of physical principles in understanding living transport networks." Physics and Astronomy caret-arrow Resilience in Networked Systems
