Research
“Medicine is a social science”, this has been the mantra of public health since 1848. Today, medicine is a computational social science. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of the Global Burden of Disease…
Over the last 20 years, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has identified a base set of findings. These findings are taken almost as assumptions within the field. In summary, they argue that human activity is highly…
The mission of the SMC is first and foremost to bring critical and analytical lenses to contemporary sociotechnical systems, particularly around media, expertise, labor, and publics. We aim to contribute to the academic fields concerned with…
Sociotechnical Systems is a network of social science and humanistic researchers, part of the Microsoft Research labs in New England. Begun in 2009, the researchers who now lead the initiative are: Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie,…
