Journalists and Trump voters live in separate online bubbles, MIT analysis shows.
Journalists spend a lot of time on Twitter, and their information bubble rarely includes Trump supporters. That’s according to a new analysis from the Electome project at the MIT Media Lab provided exclusively to VICE News.
Twitter’s political debate focuses on much different issues than Americans at large do.
Scientists at MIT has honed a classification algorithm to identify tweets that mention any presidential candidate along with terms related to 20 election issues that crop up most. MIT's Laboratory for Social Machines Team analyzed Twitter conversations. We compare these results against the poll conducted between March 3 & March 6.
Just how uncivil is Election 2016? MIT’s Media Lab has some charts you should see.
Welcome to Tonar, an index of incivility brought to you by the MIT Media Lab and more than 300 million Twitter users. Simply put, Tonar is a new data analysis tool developed by researchers at the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM).
How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View.
FlipFeed, a Twitter plug-in created by MIT researchers, provides a voyeuristic thrill -- Click a button, and your regular Twitter feed is replaced by that of a random, anonymous user of a different political persuasion. It’s perfect for seeing how the other half live-tweets a Trump news conference.
Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create
Research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.
MIT released a tool that uses real people’s Twitter feeds to show you the “otherside”
FlipFeed lets you drop into someone's liberal or conservative Twitter feed and see the world as they do.
Tech Creates Our Political Echo Chambers. It Might Also Be A Solution.
FlipFeed has a collection of accounts that span the political arena. "Flip" your feed to find common interests. Roy points out — it wasn't created as a consumer product, it was a "tiny little lab project."
This Chrome add-on lets you see Twitter through the eyes of other users
FlipFeed wants to burst your social media bubble.
MIT-designed Chrome extension fixes your Twitter filter bubble
Researchers at MIT have created a new Chrome extension that changes your Twitter feed to that of someone with different political views.
How the Orlando attack showed the potential of an October Surprise?
Nobody knows what issues will decide the 2016 election, because nobody knows what will happen over the next four and a half months. But just how rapidly does that issue matrix shift? Data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, offer some clues.
Twitter users definitely see the Supreme Court vacancy as an election issue.
We can even gain some insight into who has been the most stirred to tweet about the Supreme Court, based on the analysis of data scientists at MIT