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Something’s in the Water: A broader view of misinformation

Jun 29, 2021 | Article, News, PennMAP

Baird Howland reflects upon his ongoing research on news consumption and misinformation in “Something’s in the Water,” published in The Commonplace. He notes that the picture emerging from his research contradicts the conventional wisdom of Americans drowning in...

Upcoming: NetSci Computational Social Science Panel

Jun 28, 2021 | News

On July 2nd, 10-12 EST, Nature editors Mary Elizabeth Sutherland and Federico Levi will host a virtual round table on Computational Social Science as part of the Networks 2021 conference. The speakers, including CSSLab Director Duncan Watts, have contributed to an...

Upcoming: IC2S2 Conference on Computational Social Science

May 17, 2021 | News

The 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), organized by EHT Zurich, will take place online July 27-31. The conference brings together researchers from different disciplines interested in using computational and data-intensive methods to...

Scaling Up Experimental Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science

May 10, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News

Expert Advisory Committee: We are excited to announce the creation of the Expert Advisory Committee for our project “Scaling Up Experimental Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science.” Funded by research grants from the James and Jane Manzi Analytics Fund and Alfred...

Measuring the Narrative of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Apr 30, 2021 | COVID Philadelphia, News

New Research Project: The Analytics at Wharton Initiative awarded the CSS Lab a research grant for the project “Measuring the Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The goal of this project is to deepen our understanding of the COVID-19...