Advancing research and practice at the intersection of media, technology, and democracy.
Trust doesn’t emerge by accident. We study how media and algorithms shape it—and how it can be rebuilt. MISI investigates how media systems, stories, and algorithms influence what people see, believe, and trust—and how those dynamics shape democratic participation. We work alongside communities most affected by social and institutional breakdown to test new models of communication that are more accountable, inclusive, and worthy of public trust.
A multi-disciplinary research network linking philosophers, social scientists, computer scientists, legal scholars, and technologists.
The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
We aim to reframe the conversation about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism.
The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.