Sentences with phrase «of a social experiment about»

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We don't even have to speculate about what this might look like, since the Washington Post was part of an earlier experiment called «Social Readers.»

In this social experiment, those questions cover everything from patient privacy to the ethical dilemma of warning someone about a risk they can't avoid.

In recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might take.

The French Revolutionaries engaged in massive social experiment that invited a new kind of reflections about what kind of society is desirable.

The critical message might be about reining in the social experiments of the Obama years.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

During the course of the experiment, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about science and social studies in one of two ways: 1) material was presented once, then teachers reviewed it with students three times; 2) material was presented once, and students were quizzed on it three times (using clickers like the ones in Bain's current classroom).

«It describes a natural experiment — the introduction of a papal encyclical — on attitudes about a critical social issue, global warming.

About 340,000 extra people turned out to vote in the 2010 US congressional elections because of a single election - day Facebook message, estimate researchers who ran an experiment involving 61 million users of the social network.

UC San Diego Health recently engaged in a social experiment to encourage employees to think about the meaning of life.

That's the question at the heart of the trailer for Experimenter, Michael Almereyda's new film about a series of controversial experiments in social psychology.

The lessons of the past half century, and especially of the Great Society's mostly failed experiments in social policy, can help us think more clearly about the means by which this end could be pursued.

The system resembles a more competition - focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much commerce driven, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free publishing platform for entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdsourcing with its crowdfunding book publishing experiments.

Young adult fantasy novel, companion to The Forgetting (2016), about a city where memories are wiped every 12 years, and about a man from Earth who's come in search of this ancient social experiment.

Gail Pickering's exhibition Mirror Speech focused on a pioneering social experiment in community television that ended in a climate of widespread distrust about its political objectives - its participants disputed the image they had once collectively produced.

Congress is arguing about the definition of «journalist»; startups are experimenting with new business models and ways to deliver news to a mobile audience; people all over the world who don't call themselves journalists are using social media and smartphones to record, broadcast, and comment on «news.»

In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique because we only have one experiment, and think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).

I have always wanted to do a reverse version of this experiment, where the instructors are (say) social psychologists who have just taught the students about (say) the tragedy of the commons, and a person comes in and does a relevant experiment with the students.

«We believe that social networking sites and virtual reality platforms are important places for us to be experimenting in and learning about,» says the company's senior vice president of marketing, Charlie Young.