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J. Nathan Matias
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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2020-21 Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship Project

Building Research Agendas and Graduate Student Advising around Engaged Research

Nathan Matias leads the Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell, which currently has 13 active community-engaged research projects with communities through Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter and Consumer Reports. The lab has also recently concluded two research design workshops to build further networks of potential partnerships in the US and internationally.

Overall, these studies examine long-standing questions about human psychology and behavior in large-scale online environments shaped by algorithms.

Consider the following example: in many online discussion groups, artificial intelligence systems govern speech, removing thousands of policy-violating messages a week. In an upcoming study co-designed with a community that has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, the CAT Lab will test the effects of these automated policy enforcement systems on social norms and behavior change. The resulting research will be useful to communities and also advance scientific understanding of online behavior.

2019-20 Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning Project

In J. Nathan Matias’s cross-disciplinary Designing Field Experiments at Scale course, teams of three to five undergraduate students work with community partners to design and conduct a field experiment that tests a question in the social sciences or computer science. Before the class, Matias negotiates opportunities that could deliver pragmatic value to partners and also yield publishable scientific knowledge.

As a Faculty Fellow, Matias is redesigning the course to make it more relevant to Cornell students and developing the networks he needs to create a course that productively fits into Cornell’s learning structures. He is also exploring effective ways to evaluate the course.

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