We are just getting started with our first lab talk of the year delivered by Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Science, Northeastern University, David Lazer

How hungry are you for news, and where do you go to get it? Distinguished Professor 🇺🇦 [email protected] is sharing his insights on the changing online information ecosystem.

David Lazer (🇺🇦 [email protected]) gives an awesome talk in the Rutgers University Computational Social Science Lab (csslab.rutgers.edu) speaker series: Considerable online concentration in the news sources for COVID information Rutgers School of Communication and Information

David Lazer (🇺🇦 [email protected]): considerable variance in news ideology at the article level, even among politically biased outlets (Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

David Lazer (🇺🇦 [email protected]): There is need a for a large, shared, privacy- preserving infrastructure to study online human behavior. Enter the National Internet Observatory.(Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Time for Q&A with 🇺🇦 [email protected] at the Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series Inaugural Talk

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Let’s get started with our next Computational Social Science Lab (csslab.rutgers.edu) speaker series: Bias and Harms in Mental Health Measurement with Online technologies, presented by Dr Munmun De Choudhury, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech

“We are at a crossroads, in both computing and mental health fields. With Petabytes of data at our hands, we need to critically examine how people can benefit from online health technologies, while minimizing bias and harms” Dr Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD)

Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD): “Social Media data can be a tremendous source of opportunity in understanding communities and the people whom reside in them.” (Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD): “Many different mental health domains have begun to research and integrate technologies and make a difference in mental health. But bias still needs to be actively combatted and addressed.” (Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD): “There are some problems with proxies. We need to better understand the patients at the end of the algorithms we develop. Think about better proxies or include the patients in these models.”(Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD): “Triangulation and using different sources of data, especially in these contexts, seems to be a strong step in the right direction”(Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD): “How are we remembering the patients as we continue to develop these technologies. How do we account for agency and the individuals experience? How do we make the invisible visible?”(Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Some great reading recommendations being made by Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD) at our CSS lab talk on the bias and harms of mental health technology!

Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD): “Question everything. As we deploy these AI/ML technologies, we need to remember to account for the human in the end, and at every step along the process.”(Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series)

Q&A time with Munmun De Choudhury (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD) in what was another fantastic Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series Talk!