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Bartleby Ethics Software Named One of the World’s Best Student Designs

September 2022

Celebrating more than a decade of Innovation by Design, the 2022 honorees include nearly 600 projects, products, and services from […]

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Do Automated Welcomes Improve Newcomer Retention on French Wikipedia?

September 2021

Does receiving a welcome message increase how many newcomers to Wikipedia make their first edit, and influence them to keep […]

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6 Ideas to Strengthen Wikipedia(s) with Citizen Behavioral Science

November 2019

Can we decrease harassment on Wikipedia using AI? How can Wikipedia broaden content focused on underrepresented groups? Would new Wikipedia editors be more likely to stay if they were greeted by ‘welcome bots’?

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Reddit Mods: Let’s Test Ideas for Preventing Harassment and Fact-Checking the News

March 2019

Are you a reddit moderator interested to reduce harassment or manage the spread of unreliable news in your community? CivilServant is looking for communities to test ideas together.

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Meet CivilServant’s New Research Manager: Julia Kamin

May 2018

Hello! My name is Julia Kamin, and it is with great excitement and gratitude that I introduce myself in this blog post as CivilServant’s new Research Manager.

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Gathering the Custodians of the Internet: Lessons from the First CivilServant Summit

February 2018

An agenda for citizen behavioral science to maintain and protect the communities we love online.

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Does Responding to Online Harassment Work? Help us Find Out!

December 2017

Our Princeton & NYU team is recruiting women and your trusted allies on Twitter to test what to say when someone attacks or tries to undermine you online.

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Remaking Large-Scale Behavioral Research for Democracy: New Paper at CHI 2018

December 2017

Field experiments can guide wise use of platform power if we re-design the relationship between democracy & behavioral science.

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Moderators: Join us at MIT To Create a Fairer, Safer, More Understanding Internet

December 2017

Apply by Dec 15 for our Jan 27-28 summit, which brings communities together to develop research on moderation and community online.

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