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SUMMARY:Sinan Aral\, "Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation"
DESCRIPTION:Sinan Aral\nIdentity and reputation drive some of the most important decisions we make online: Who to follow or link to\, whose information to trust\, whose opinion to rely on when choosing a product or service\, whose content to consume and share. Yet\, we know very little about the dynamics of online reputation and how it affects our decision making. \nThe MIT Sloan School of Management’s Sinan Aral will describe a series of randomized experiments that explore the population level behavioral dynamics catalyzed by identity and reputation online. He will explore some of the implications for bias in online ratings\, the foundations of social advertising and the ability to generate cascades of behavior through peer to peer social influence in networks. The coming decades will likely see an emphasis on verified identities online. Aral will argue that a new science of online identity could help guide our business\, platform design and social policy decisions in light of the rising importance of online reputation and social influence.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sinan-aral-social-influence-dynamics-online-reputation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Philip Napoli\, "Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance"
DESCRIPTION:Philip Napoli\, Rutgers University\nIn recent years\, a variety of funders have begun to invest substantially in efforts to assess the impact of media initiatives such as documentary films and journalism ventures. These efforts reflect a fundamental shift in how media performance is assessed (and whose assessments matter) in an environment of extreme audience fragmentation and increased challenges to monetizing media content. This presentation will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment. In addressing these issues\, this analysis seeks to: \n\nidentify important points of distinction between contemporary notions of media impact and more traditional notions of media effects;\nassess the methods and metrics being employed to assess media impact;\nidentify the key challenges and tensions inherent in such efforts.\n\nThis presentation also will illustrate that impact represents only one of a number of aspects of journalistic performance that are being converted to quantitative performance metrics. Related areas of ongoing research include efforts to assess the health of local media ecosystems and the quality of journalistic content. The broader implications of this wide-ranging transformation in how journalistic performance may be assessed will be considered. \nPhilip M. Napoli (Ph.D.\, Northwestern University) is Professor of Journalism & Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University\, where he leads the Media and the Public Interest Initiative. His current research projects include an analysis of the functioning of the New York City information ecosystem during and after Hurricane Sandy (funded by Internews) and the News Measures Research Project (funded by the Democracy Fund and the Dodge Foundation).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/philip-napoli-media-impact-assessment-quantifying-journalistic-performance/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Caetlin Benson-Allott\, "By Design: Or\, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control"
DESCRIPTION:Caetlin Benson-Allott\nCo-sponsored with MIT Literature. \nHow does an object set the limits for human experiences of will and subjecthood? How does an interface temper our desires for interactivity or intervention? A remote control appears to exert its user’s will over distant objects\, yet the design and function of the device itself instill in its subject a vexed relationship to his or her own agency. Analyzing the technical and design evolution of these devices reveals how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media\, consumer electronics\, and each other. \nCaetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2013) and Remote Control (New York: Bloomsbury Press\, forthcoming 2015). Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal\, Jump Cut\, Film Quarterly\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Film Criticism\, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video as well as multiple anthologies. \nLoading…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/caetlin-benson-allott-remote-controls-nature-of-control/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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