{"id":66,"date":"2019-09-16T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/?p=66"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:54:13","slug":"intro-initial-project-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/2019\/09\/16\/intro-initial-project-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd-sourced intelligence &amp; digital authoritarianism: Molly&#8217;s intro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I come from faraway Maryland to \npursue my Masters in CS.&nbsp; My undergrad is in math from UMBC (University \nof Maryland &#8211; Baltimore County).&nbsp; I worked at the MITRE Corporation for \nthree years after college, working test and evaluation for national \nsecurity-related research projects, primarily related to crowd-sourced \nanticipatory intelligence: using \u201cwisdom of the crowds\u201d to assign \nprobabilistic estimates to possible global events (e.g. 0.01% chance \nthat Slovakia will invade North Dakota in the next ten years).&nbsp; I have \nexperience with prediction markets, aggregating human judgements, event \ncoding, and human factors\/usability. In the course of my work I became \nfluent in R, Python and Stata. I can do some limited JavaScript and \nHTML&#8230;in a crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m interested in topics related to \ndigital authoritarianism and networked protests; basically, how \nauthoritarian governments harness technology to stifle dissent and \notherwise exert control over their people (and\/or other nations\u2019 people,\n as in \u201chacked\u201d elections), and how people use the technology available \nto them to organize against their oppressors.&nbsp; But I don\u2019t have a good \nidea yet of how to narrow that down to a topic that can be studied \nwithin the confines of a semester. Maybe we could zero in on one \nspecific way that state actors, like law enforcement, work with social \nmedia\u2014something like police responses to suicide threats via Facebook, \nwhich got some coverage recently (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/31\/technology\/facebook-suicide-screening-algorithm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NY Times&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>).&nbsp; Other CSCW-related interests include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What makes people trust (or not trust) the judgements of machines<\/li><li>How small changes in UI elicit better human judgements<\/li><li>How disinformation propagates through social media<\/li><li>How data are collected and\/or inferred through social media during humanitarian crises<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from faraway Maryland to pursue my Masters in CS.&nbsp; My undergrad is in math from UMBC (University of Maryland &#8211; Baltimore County).&nbsp; I worked at the MITRE Corporation for three years after college, working test and evaluation for national security-related research projects, primarily related to crowd-sourced anticipatory intelligence: using \u201cwisdom of the crowds\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}