Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems
Meredith Broussard, one of the few Black women doing research in artificial intelligence, would like to see us tackling the problems that have been shown to be prevalent in today’s AI systems, especially the issue of bias based on race, gender, or ability.
Watch the Webinar – Therapeutic Cultures: A View from Latin America
Join the authors of the new book Beyond Therapeutic Culture in Latin America: Hybrid Networks in Argentina and Brazil as they examine […]
Elizabeth Anderson, Alondra Nelson Win 2023 Sage-CASBS Award
Two eminent scholars – philosopher Elizabeth Anderson and sociologist Alondra Nelson – have won the 2023 Sage-CASBS Award.
When Grand Challenges Literature Becomes the Tower of Babel
The management community’s sudden interest in Grand Challenges risks turning Grand Challenges literature into a Tower of Babel.
Amitai Etzioni, 1929-2023: Father of Communitarianism
Amitai Etzioni, an Israeli-American sociologist, senior policy adviser, educator and father of the communitarianism philosophy, died May 31. He was 94.
Would You Step on Board an IT Project Named Titanic?
This anecdote illustrates the joy of doing this research. It shows that IT project names sometimes exhibit an unexpected twist and can have a completely different effect than anticipated. One project name even surprised us as researchers on this topic.
Heaven Crawley on International Migration
Heaven Crawley, who heads equitable development and migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, discusses how the current Western picture of migration is incomplete and lacks nuance, both of which harm efforts to address the issue.
Human-Centered AI: Carnegie Mellon University Heads New NSF-Funded Institute For Societal Decision Making
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $20 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to lead an institute that will employ social scientists and artificial intelligence researchers to create human-centric AI tools to help people address challenges on the job.
