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Civic crowdfunding : participatory communities, entrepreneurs and the political economy of place
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Crowdfunding, the raising of capital from a large and diverse pool of donors via online platforms, has grown exponentially in the past five years, spurred by the rise of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. While legislative attention ...
Action path : a location-based tool for civic reflection and engagement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Many platforms for civic engagement, whether online or offline, require that citizens leave the places they normally inhabit physically or virtually and commit to a separate space and set of processes. Examples include ...
Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer : a machine-learning tool for classifying and analyzing discourse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) aims to understand the link "between language and the social" (Mautner and Baker, 2009), and attempts to demystify social construction and power relations (Gramsci, 1999). On the other ...
Merry Miser
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of Merry Miser, a persuasive mobile phone application intended to help people to spend less and save more. The application uses the context provided by users' ...
Networked tactics for gender representation in the news
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis presents research on gender disparities in online news, followed with three open source designs that attempt to address those disparities. Open Gender Tracker is a platform that applies automated gender analysis ...
Mapjack : a mobile based Wiki for collaborative map making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The internet has enabled people with few or no formal qualifications to create, share and disseminate cartographic information. One of the best platforms that has empowered citizens to create cartographic data is OpenStreetMap. ...
Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
There is a significant body of research that shows that people tend to congregate with others like them and favor information that confirms their existing views. With declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized ...
Participatory aid marketplace : designing online channels for digital humanitarians
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Recent years have seen an increase in natural and man-made crises. Information and communication technologies are enabling citizens to contribute creative solutions and participate in crisis response in myriad new ways, ...
Gender shades : intersectional phenotypic and demographic evaluation of face datasets and gender classifiers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis (1) characterizes the gender and skin type distribution of IJB-A, a government facial recognition benchmark, and Adience, a gender classification benchmark, (2) outlines an approach for capturing images with ...