Tag: Social networks

Finding solidarity in the teachers’ lounge

In the United States, social institutions from church organizations to sports leagues occupy key roles in shaping political life, with unions perhaps the most familiar player, affecting change in realms from protest movements to elections.    But while these civil society institutions draw little notice in a democracy, they turn heads in settings where political […]

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Advancing social studies at MIT Sloan

Around 2010, Facebook was a relatively small company with about 2,000 employees. So, when a PhD student named Dean Eckles showed up to serve an intership at the firm, he landed in a position with some real duties. Eckles essentially became the primary data scientist for the product manager who was overseeing the platform’s news […]

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