Sentences with phrase «social experiment in»

[iii] More recently, Sheryl Sandberg summarized a social experiment in her best - selling book «Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead».

These results came on the heels of the world's first social experiment in renewability, which uncovered how renewable lifestyle choices influence levels of happiness.

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.

It's a social experiment in incentivizing helpful interaction.

The online mode feels like a weird social experiment in video game form.

Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools

Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Educator and political activist George Counts shipped a Ford sedan to Leningrad and set out on a three - month tour, extolling the role Soviet schools played in «the greatest social experiment in history.»

Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment, written by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn (also writer of Dawn of the Dead and director of SLiTHER), is clearly inspired by the 2000 Japanese adaptation; it takes place during a twisted social experiment in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high - rise corporate office in Bogata, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

The new elements include the wasteland, which looks like an alien planet (Think Mars, with its rust - colored terrain but also with the addition of strange spherical and conical ruins, puddles of blood - red water, and rain of the same hue that pours down from the sky), and the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, the organization that is overseeing the social experiment in a towering, futuristic spiral edifice established amidst the ruins of O'Hare Airport.

The only other significant new release this week was BH Tilt's «The Belko Experiment,» about 80 Americans forced into a sick social experiment in a corporate tower in Colombia.

Synopsis: Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast - food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for a...

It was a social experiment in conjunction with London's Science Museum that aimed to allow participants to delve a little bit deeper into finding that special someone.

woGoal.com has conducted a social experiment in an attempt to find out which countries are the best for dating online.

«Reciprocal relationships are important because of social influence,» says Dr. Shmueli, who utilized the «FunFit» social experiment in the course of the research.

Studies of the real world are messy and rarely allow for controlled experiments, whereas social experiments in laboratories are expensive and involve contrived situations.

Milgram had a hand in creating some of the most fascinating social experiments in the 20th century (one of his experiments helped introduce the concept of «six degrees of separation), with his most famous study being the obedience experiments he conducted at Yale in the 1960s.

Wooloo creates social experiments in collaborative participation: like the online community, Wooloo's other works explore strategies in which several people take a role in the art - making process.

While at the ICA Mergel organized numerous exhibitions, including Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video (2009), and Tara Donovan (2008 — 2009), the sculptor's first museum survey, for which Mergel served as co-curator with Nicholas Baume.

Mergel has organized numerous exhibitions and artist projects at the ICA, including: Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video (2009), an examination of the complex dynamics of social relationships featuring works by Yael Bartana, Phil Collins, and Javier Téllez; Tara Donovan (2008 — 2009), the sculptor's first museum survey, for which Mergel served as co-curator with Nicholas Baume and coordinated the national tour; and Accumulations (2007 — 2008), an ICA Collection exhibition that considered how artists assemble discrete elements into more than the sum of their parts, with works by Paul Chan, Josiah McElheny, and Cornelia Parker, among others.

Not exact matches

To address the discrepancies in the first experiment's methodology, the researchers conducted a second experiment where participants created a profile on a fake social media site.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

The social media site apologized this week for participating in an experiment where it manipulated the feeds of nearly 700,000 users.

«We're living a social experiment,» says Khalid Alkhudair, CEO of Glowork, a female recruiting company in the kingdom that has helped place 26,000 Saudi women in jobs since 2011.

One wonders if Facebook's embarrassing social - engineering experiment last spring, in which users» feeds were edited in an attempt to lift their moods, wasn't a desperate ploy to keep people coming back.

In Europe, people are experimenting with Pokens — small, personalized USB sticks through which they can exchange contact and social - network details by touching their devices together.

«Private companies and institutions will be a crucial part of any serious effort to rewrite the social contract, because they can incubate ideas that government won't and experiment in ways that government can't.»

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

In experiments, when we manipulate loneliness, everyone shows decreased social skills because they are less likely to take the perspective of others.

Startups are able to experiment across social media platforms in ways that large corporations, with their red tape and layers of hierarchy, can't.

Posting has become a big lab experiment for Madison Avenue, and the social media companies are eager to prove their relevance to corporations, specifically, in terms of return on investment for ad dollars.

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.

Many times, when companies first start experimenting with content marketing tactics, they eagerly jump into many of the well - documented strategies such as creating a company blog or registering for each social channel, but don't see the immediate results that they were looking for — this can cause uncertainty in their marketing tactics and lead to an eventual failure.

In some cases that will mean helping publishers or media outlets, he said, and in some cases it won't (something publishers have already learned with past initiatives such as the «social reader» app experiments in 2012In some cases that will mean helping publishers or media outlets, he said, and in some cases it won't (something publishers have already learned with past initiatives such as the «social reader» app experiments in 2012in some cases it won't (something publishers have already learned with past initiatives such as the «social reader» app experiments in 2012in 2012).

Two problems dogged the experiment however: Traffic patterns were unpredictable — an early manifestation of the News Feed algorithm problem — and it spooked users by showing people in their social graph what they had been reading.

In what it calls an attempt to promote «trustworthiness» in its economy and society, China is experimenting with a social credit system that mixes familiar Western - style credit scores with more expansive — and intrusive — measureIn what it calls an attempt to promote «trustworthiness» in its economy and society, China is experimenting with a social credit system that mixes familiar Western - style credit scores with more expansive — and intrusive — measurein its economy and society, China is experimenting with a social credit system that mixes familiar Western - style credit scores with more expansive — and intrusive — measures.

Still, there are plenty of traditional marketing stalwarts out there who aren't buying all of the social media hype or can't convince their boss or marketing team to experiment in the brave new world of inbound marketing.

As midnight approached on Dec. 11, a circle of Zappos and Downtown Project employees lifted up their shot glasses around a bonfire near the edge of the Fremont East District in downtown Las Vegas, where Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is conducting one of his many social experiments.

In a mix of franchising and entrepreneurship, Hsieh's Downtown Project has 300 projects going on simultaneously, from new restaurants to tech startups to social science experiments — his small business founders make a salary and then 50 percent of the profit after paying their loans back to him.

In his book, Delivering Happiness, Hsieh says that he never wanted to sell Zappos but that the company's board — and, in particular, investor Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm which kept it afloat with $ 48 million in the mid-2000s — was getting tired of his «social experiments» and wanted the company to improve profitabilitIn his book, Delivering Happiness, Hsieh says that he never wanted to sell Zappos but that the company's board — and, in particular, investor Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm which kept it afloat with $ 48 million in the mid-2000s — was getting tired of his «social experiments» and wanted the company to improve profitabilitin particular, investor Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm which kept it afloat with $ 48 million in the mid-2000s — was getting tired of his «social experiments» and wanted the company to improve profitabilitin the mid-2000s — was getting tired of his «social experiments» and wanted the company to improve profitability.

In 2015 one of Social Capital's partners visited the offices of SurveyMonkey Inc., the online poll service, and learned that one of its former employees had designed a series of impressively elegant experiments to determine product pricing in different countrieIn 2015 one of Social Capital's partners visited the offices of SurveyMonkey Inc., the online poll service, and learned that one of its former employees had designed a series of impressively elegant experiments to determine product pricing in different countriein different countries.

I created this blog to test various marketing tactics and in 2013, I experimented with SEO and social media, as well as a few other things.

In the midst of this social experiment to abolish cannabis prohibition, entrepreneurs are jumping into a Wild West - like landscape of marijuana market opportunities.

From Smirnoff's campaign for equality in the music industry to Heineken's «Worlds Apart» social experiment, 2017 has seen many huge brands get behind great causes.

With the mandate to experiment and be bold along with the general idea that philanthropists work with the most vulnerable, what responsibility do we have to the client if / when our social experiments fail, perhaps another way to ask is — Is it possible to «do no harm» when engaging in philanthropy?]

There is no relevance in terms of Twitter profile rank and from experiments I have run using Fiverr, the core problem with social signals is they still appear to produce a QDF effect, quick increase, but difficult to get sticky without links, of course the initial boost and eyeballs on your content for relevant searches can lead to links.

Our social experiment, Honest City, placed pop - up beverage stands in nine major cities across the country and generated extensive media coverage.

The most important conclusion to emerge from this «queer mixture of hard data, soft data, thought experiments, and speculations» is that social policy can not afford to ignore what Edmund Burke called «the little platoon we belong to in society.»

By the way I think the progressive liberal experiment in modern social values is going extremely well [sic]... what do you think?

Now the issue is more likely to be drinking, and the avant - garde in Holiness and Pentecostal schools are experimenting with restrained social drinking.