How Tamil Nadu Used Technology to Tackle the Coronavirus Crisis

In this interview, Santosh Misra, CEO of the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA), spoke with Raghuram Iyengar about the role that TNeGA played in e-governance for the state and the initiatives the agency deployed to contain the crisis.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science

A new breed of researcher is turning to computation to understand society — and then change it. Duncan Watts discusses changes to traditional social science and computational social science in this recent Nature news feature.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Diana Mutz receives PSRM Prize

Diana Mutz's 2018 paper on "Attitudes Toward Economic Inequality: The Illusory Agreement" was awarded the 2019/2020 PSRM Prize. This prize is awarded annually to the best article published in Political Science Research and Methods.

Communication
Political Science

Consensus and Contagion in Society

President Gutmann and Jonathan Moreno kick off 15th World Congress of Bioethics

President Amy Gutmann spoke to more than 600 bioethicists from across the world who tuned in online to the plenary session of the 15th International Association of Bioethics’ World Congress of Bioethics, a Q&A that was moderated by Jonathan Moreno, whose research focuses on bioethics, culture, science, and national security.

Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Philosophy
Sociology

Ubiquity of Data

African American businesswoman with face mask texting on the phone while traveling by bus.

Can contact tracing stop the spread of COVID-19?

Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth discuss how contact tracing works, the differences between traditional ‘analog’ and new ‘digital’ approaches, and how these two strategies could shape what everyday life looks like in the next phase of the pandemic.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Ron Berman receives V. Seenu Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Marketing

The V. Seenu Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Marketing was established in 2013, and recognizes important contributions by a young scholar to methodology development in quantitative marketing. Ron Berman received the 2020 award.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

What do ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and a list of Facebook friends all have in common?

New research from Dani Bassett finds that works of literature, musical pieces, and social networks have a similar underlying structure that allows them to share large amounts of information efficiently.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Meeting the Challenge of Vaccination Hesitancy: Q&A with Damon Centola

Damon Centola contributed an essay to a recent report on the root causes of vaccine hesitancy and actionable steps to address it. In his Q&A with Annenberg, he answered a few questions about the anti-vaccination movement and how to curb it.

Communication
Sociology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Defining Blockchain

Maybe the reason there is so much confusion and dismissal of blockchain is that we're trying too hard to answers the "what" questions, rather than finding the shortest possible answers to the "why" questions? Kevin Werbach's recent Linkedin op-ed is an attempt at the latter.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

How Prevalent is Fake News?

Duncan Watts joined Wharton Business Daily host Dan Loney to talk about Twitter, social media and the prevalence of fake news as we head into election season.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data