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Bridging the Online Gender Gap: Rebecca MacKinnon and the Fight for Gender Equity on Wikipedia

Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a. …

May 6, 2025

Featured Research
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Labeling Election-Related Communications on Social Media: Navigating “easy” and “hard” Labels

By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching and Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, and Jorge Bris Moreno ’25, MDI Scholar Researchers analyzing social…

May 5, 2025

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Editing for Equity: Georgetown University’s Second Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Aims to Increase Representation and Close the Gender Gap Online

Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a. …

April 25, 2025

Formal Response
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Formal Response — MDI’s Comment on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan

The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University offer the following comments in response to Office of Science and Technology…

April 17, 2025

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MDI Impact Brief — Resolving the Tension between Privacy and Generative AI

Generative AI tools and applications are advancing at an astonishing rate. From generating code, email, and music to supporting decision making, generative AI is becoming common…

April 14, 2025

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Who Decides What You See? How Middleware Can Reshape Social Media

By: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy For as long social media has existed, there have been debates about content moderation and…

April 10, 2025

Events
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Event — MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2025

On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the Massive Data Institute of the McCourt School of Public Policy will host the MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2025. MDI Scholars will…

April 1, 2025

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Tech & Society Week 2025 — AI Hazards: Understanding AI Incidents

On Monday, March 17, 2025 from 3:00 to 4:00pm in Fisher Colloquium in Hariri Building on the Hilltop Campus, we will be hosting a panel discussion on AI incidents during Tech ;…

March 12, 2025

Job Posting
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MDI is Hiring: Summer 2025 MDI Scholars

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Summer 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the application deadline is Friday, April 4,…

February 27, 2025

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Georgetown University Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2025 for Women’s History Month

Join the Georgetown community to help close this gender gap on Wikipedia by increasing the representation of underrepresented groups — in both Wikipedia content and…

February 20, 2025