I am a professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech where I lead the Social Technologies research group. Previously, I was an assistant professor at Rutgers SC&I, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, and got a PhD from Stanford. Oh, and played professional basketball. I sometimes consult or even co-found startups.
My lab designs, builds, and studies social systems, with a focus on topics related to Technology, Media and Democracy and the trustworthiness of our information ecosystem. Our sponsors include Yahoo, Google, Facebook and the National Science Foundation.
For prospective PhD students: I will only be considering new students who are committed to working on issues related to Technology, Media and Democracy. Feel free to email me with information about your relevant experience and goals.Invited speaker for the Future of the Web track in The Web Conference 2020, April 23, Taipei (postponed due to Coronavirus)
Thank you NSF for a CHS-Medium award to study AI-Mediated Communication and trust with Karen Levy, Malte Jung and Jeff Hancock
Started a sabbatical as a visiting researcher at Google in Mountain View, CA
Will be on a Plenary panel on Future of Media and Misinformation at Collective Intelligence 2019 in June.
NSF EAGER award (with Yoav, Shiri) to better understand large-scale patterns of attention to news articles
Report on the succesful first iteration of Tech, Media and Democracy Course
Mor Naaman is a professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech. He leads a research group focused on topics related to the intersection of technology, media and democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques -- from machine learning to qualitative social science -- to study our information ecosystem and its challenges.
Previously, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, led a research team at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Stanford University InfoLab, and played professional basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is also a former startup co-founder, and advises startup companies in social computing and related areas. His research is widely recognized, including with an NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, research awards and grants from numerous corporations, and multiple best paper awards.
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AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
|Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 25(1)Towards Measuring Adversarial Twitter Interactions against Candidates in the US Midterm Elections
|ICWSM 2020Characterizing Twitter Users Who Engage in Adversarial Interactions against Political Candidates
|CHI 2020How Intention Informed Recommendations Modulate Choices: A Field Study of Spoken Word Content
|WWW 2019AI-Mediated Communication: How the Perception that Profile Text was Written by AI Affects Trustworthiness
|CHI 2019DejaVu: A System for Journalists to Collaboratively Address Visual Misinformation
|Computation + Journalism“People Are Either Too Fake or Too Real”: Opportunities and Challenges in Tie-Based Anonymity
|CHI 2017Self-disclosure and Perceived Trustworthiness of Airbnb Host Profiles
|CSCW 2017TAMIES: A Study and Model of Adoption in P2P Resource Sharing and Indirect Exchange Systems
|CSCW 2017Finding and Assessing Social Media Information Sources in the Context of Journalism
|CHI 2012Unfolding the Event Landscape on Twitter: Classification and Exploration of User Categories
|CSCW 2012The Impact of Network Structure on Breaking Ties in Online Social Networks: Unfollowing on Twitter
|CHI 2011Social multimedia: highlighting opportunities for search and mining of multimedia data in social media applications
|MTAPPAnalysis of Participation in an Online Photo-Sharing Community: A Multidimensional Perspective
|JASISTMotivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing
|ICWSM 2009Less Talk, More Rock: Automated Organization of Community-Contributed Collections of Concert Videos
|WWW 2009How Flickr Helps us Make Sense of the World: Context and Content in Community-Contributed Media Collections.
|ACM Multimedia 2007World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections
|JCDL 2007(Invited column) Eyes on the World
|IEEE Computer MagazineAssigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates
|Journal of Computers, Environment, and Urban SystemsAdventures in Space and Time: Browsing Personal Collections of Geo-Referenced Digital Photographs
|Stanford Technical ReportAutomatic Organization for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates
|JCDL 2004From Where to What: Metadata Sharing for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates
|COOPIS 2003