Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design. The award supports the CivilServant Research Summit being held January 27^th and 28^th, 2018. CivilServant seeks to scale society’s capacity to discover effective ideas for a fairer, safer, and more understanding internet. It supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on social media platforms. To that end, the Summit’s theme is “Improvement and Accountability: Citizen Science for the Internet.” It will bring together online communities and academic researchers to highlight the contributions of citizen behavioral science in today’s internet and develop new research on moderation, behavioral change and platform accountability.

The MIT Media Laboratory encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas and develops technologies that empower people of all ages to design and invent new possibilities for themselves and their communities. Building on the Learning Creative Learning, a 24,000+ user open learning course it created, the Lab will use this grant to develop tools, practices, and communities to support opening learning among adults who foster Connected Learning. The Lab will expand and refine the toolset created for the course so that others can easily re-use them, and integrate the toolset into the www.connectedlearning.tv website.

To produce a CD-ROM about the life of Jerome B. Wiesner.