Publications

Technology has reached a critical juncture in American society. The unfettered optimism of recent decades is now tempered by rising concerns over privacy and security, the impact of disinformation campaigns, and increasing calls for digital...

AI Blindspots are oversights in a team’s workflow that can generate harmful unintended consequences. They can arise from our unconscious biases or structural inequalities embedded in society. Blindspots can occur at any point before, during, or after the...

 

Bridging privacy policy with product design

 

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy reached out to academics, design experts, and consumer advocates who are leading thinkers and practitioners in promoting privacy enhancing...

How can teams prevent structural inequalities and their unconscious biases from affecting artificial intelligence systems?

AI Blindspot aims to stimulate discussion and deliberation about the pitfalls of AI systems. To do this, we created a website and a...

This report the nuances of privacy protection through different organizations and strategies. As part of the decision to facilitate an open discussion during the workshop, we will integrate some of the discussion, questions and ideas throughout this...

A system, method and various user interfaces enable visually browsing multiple groups of video recommendations. A video stream includes a group of videos to be viewed and commented by users who join the stream. Users who join a stream form a stream...

The present invention enables real-time video commenting by viewers of media content on a web site. The media content may be video, audio, text, still images or other types of media content. When a content viewer indicates a desire to provide a real-time...

When a big news story breaks, Twitter goes crazy.  Keepr tries to make sense of these periodic bursts by implementing natural language processing and social network analysis algorithms to surface topics, eyewitnesses, and amplifiers. A live demo will be...

As a member of the startup teams at YouTube and Upworthy, Hong Qu has
seen firsthand how memes go viral.  He will share strategies for
conceptualizing, crafting, and spreading messages as memes, as well as
quantitative models to monitor and optimize their...

Nieman Visiting Fellow Hong Qu analyzes the role social media played in breaking the news of the Boston Marathon attack.

A reporter and a programmer on what social media coverage of the Boston bombings means for journalism