A5032319392- Game Theory and Voting Systems
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Game Theory and Applications
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Media and Politics
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Media Studies and Communication
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Freedom of Expression and Defamation
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021-2025
Internet Society
2024
Harvard University
2023
Harvard University Press
2023
Google (United States)
2022
The dynamics of random transitive delegations on a graph are particular interest when viewed through the lens an emerging voting paradigm: liquid democracy. This paradigm allows voters to choose between directly and transitively delegating their votes other so that those selected cast vote weighted by number they received. In epistemic setting, where decide binary issue for which there is ground truth, previous work showed few may amass such large amount influence democracy less likely...
There is increasing concern about the unilateral power of organizations involved in development, alignment, and governance AI. Recent pilots - such as Meta's Community Forums Anthropic's Collective Constitutional AI have illustrated a promising direction, where democratic processes might be used to meaningfully improve public involvement trust critical decisions. However, there no standard framework for evaluating processes. In this paper, building on insights from theory practice...
This study was aimed at identifying key topics in online discussions about tinnitus by examining a large data set extracted from Reddit social media using natural language processing technique.A corpus of 113,215 posts Reddit's application programming interface. After cleaning the for duplications and without any text information, sample reduced to 101,905 posts, which subjected cluster analysis open-source IRaMuTeQ software identify main based on co-occurrence texts. These clusters were...
This white paper outlines a long-term scientific vision for the development of digital-democracy technology. We contend that if digital democracy is to meet ambition enabling participatory renewal in our societies, then comprehensive multi-methods research effort required could, over years, support its democratically principled, empirically and computationally informed way. The co-authored by an international interdisciplinary team researchers arose from Lorentz Center Workshop on...
Social media platforms mediate a significant fraction of human communication and attention. The impact social on society has been under increased scrutiny, concerns over its effects have motivated varied sometimes contradictory government regulation around the world. In this review article, we offer two ways mapping space regulation: viewing either (i) as an architecture impacted by design choices, or (ii) market governed incentives. We survey most prominent regulatory approaches globally...
Liquid democracy is a voting paradigm that conceptually situated between direct democracy, in which voters have influence over decisions, and representative where choose delegates who represent them for period of time. Under liquid choice: they can either vote directly on an issue like or delegate their to another voter, entrusting behalf. The defining feature these delegations are transitive: if voter 1 2 3, then 3 votes (or delegates) behalf all three voters.
The digitization of news publishing has resulted in new ways for advertisers to reach readers, including additional native advertising formats that blend with news. However, ads may redirect attention off-site and affect the readers' impression publishers. Using a combination observations ad content across many publishers two large randomized experiments, we investigate characteristics pervasive format compare impact different on perceived credibility. Analyzing 1.4 million collected...
We analyze the optimal size of a congress in representative democracy. take an epistemic view where voters decide on binary issue with one ground truth outcome, and each voter votes correctly according to their competence levels $[0, 1]$. Assuming that we can sample best experts form congress, find should be linear population size. This result is striking because it holds even when allowing top representatives accurate arbitrarily high probabilities. then real world data, finding actual...
As the world's democratic institutions are challenged by dissatisfied citizens, political scientists and also computer have proposed analyzed various (innovative) methods to select representative bodies, a crucial task in every democracy. However, unified framework analyze compare different selection mechanisms is missing, resulting very few comparative works. To address this gap, we advocate employing concepts tools from computational social choice order devise model which can be...
Abstract In recent years, various innovations aimed at counteracting perceived presentism and democratic decline have emerged. One primary concern is the issue of inadequate representation in parliaments, which has prompted development proposals for reforming selection mechanisms parliamentarians. this context, lottocracy (selection representatives random) proxy democracy models based on self-selection flexible nominations that determine relative influence representatives) are candidates as...
Aggregating opinions of a collection agents is question interest to broad array researchers, ranging from ensemble-learning theorists political scientists designing democratic institutions. This work investigates the optimal number needed decide on binary issue under majority rule. We take an epistemic view where at hand has ground truth ``correct'' outcome and each one n voters votes correctly with fixed probability, known as their competence level or competence. These competencies come...
Fluid democracy is a voting paradigm that allows voters to choose between directly and transitively delegating their votes other voters. While fluid has been viewed as system can combine the best aspects of direct representative democracy, it also result in situations where few amass large amount influence. To analyze impact this shortcoming, we consider what called an epistemic setting, decide on binary issue for which there ground truth. Previous work shown under certain assumptions...