Jul 26, 2021 | News, Published
With private companies increasingly controlling the production and consumption of information on their platforms, their data on user habits has grown especially valuable to researchers. However, these data rarely provide a complete picture of media consumption, since...
Jun 30, 2021 | News, Published
Over the past fifteen years, a technological revolution has deepened the intersection between the computational and social sciences. The rise of the internet has created new classes of data for social scientists to analyze—data which, because of its novelty compared...
Apr 29, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
Coauthored by Lab Director Duncan Watts, the new white paper “Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science” proposes a fundamental rethinking of the model of virtual-laboratory style experiments. It outlines four major changes to the...
Apr 16, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
“A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Informal Social Networks in Firms,” authored by Lab Director Duncan Watts and coauthor Abigail Jacobs, has been published in Management Science. The paper provides an analysis of a unique data set of aggregated, anonymized email...
Apr 9, 2021 | News, PennMAP, Published
Authored by Lab Director Duncan Watts and coauthors David Rothschild and Markus Mobius, a recent paper titled “Measuring the news and its impact on democracy” has been published in PNAS. The paper proposes an ambitious collective research agenda to measure the...
